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ink and I should have noticed if the
cheques had not been crossed when pre-
sented for signature, and I should have
noticed and asked the reason why if the
cheque had been crossed in ink instead
of a crossing stamp being used.
Towards the end of the year I was on
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the look out for any large payments.
Firstly to see that the funds at the Bank
were adequate to meet them, and secondly
to see that the fix expenditure was duly
passed by the examination branch as
being within the vote concerned and correct
in other respects. I did in fact,
towards the end of December, refuse to sign
a number of cheques in respect of which
the vouchers had not been passed by the
examination branch, because I desired to
be satisfied that the amounts were within
the vote.
The handwriting in the body of each of
these cheques, while it bears a strong
resemblance to the first defendant's
handwriting, struck me when I first saw
them as being different from his usual
writing, and I believe I would have
challenged these cheques for that reason.
Reference had been made to the abstraction from
Treasury cheque books of two batches of thirty cheques
each three of which cheques were utilized for the
purpose of this fraud
The cheque books from which these cheques were
abstracted were:-