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We should like to be clear as to whether you did for certain speak to Mr. Melbourne before the Company was employed. Mr. Melbourne has told us that he found the Company was conducting sales where the order had been addressed to Hughes & Hough.
I am sure that I saw Mr. Melbourne before the Company was employed at all. So far as I can remember Mr. Melbourne never spoke to me about the Company conducting any sale the order for which had been addressed to Hughes & Hough.
Did you hand over to Hughes & Hough the conduct of any auction in respect of which the order directed sale by Hughes & Hough?
I would not swear to this. So far as I
recollect the names were crossed out. I used to write
the forms sometimes and sometimes Mr. O'Sullivan and
Mr. Stainefield.
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Did Mr. Melbourne enquire as to the
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financial Stability of the Company?
Not to my knowledge.
When the Company first conducted the auctions I attended and took the money myself at
the sales and paid it in.
Were the proceeds of sales by the Company
paid by cheques signed by Hodge?
Proceeds were paid at first to me in cash.
Afterwards by cheque signed by Wong Fung Sek, the Treasurer and Accountant of the Company. Hodge never signed any of the cheques.
stability?
Did you make any enquires as to the Company's
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