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What would you say would be the position if that money-changer's
cheque were returned to you by the bank? Would the Government
in your opinion be liable to refund the deposits?
I am afraid it would be unless I was personally responsible for
my officers.
So that you do regard it as government money an obligation on
government?
Yes.
Can you regard it as coronant with the principles maybe
restrictive but certainly very sound principles of government
accounting and financial control that you should accept cheques
from unsecured moneychangers in that way?
No. I cannot accept that. I know moneychangers are in some way
controlled by the police. I am afraid I have not the details of
that to hand at the moment, and that they are generally for that
reason reliable. Their mumber is restricted, their practice is
lucrative and they are unlikely to
I am a fraid I don't quite understand.
out-door staff were reliable?
You have told us that your
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Yes.
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You have come to that conclusion about them from your personal
observations. They would, till you introduced some such system
as this, have been compelled by circumstances to handle very large
sums of money in varying currencies?
Yes.
In fact at one time they did. You knew they ought to have been
secured?
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I would not say that sir.
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Don't you so read Colonial Regulations?
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I cannot find those words in Colonial egulations.
Are you referring to the use of the word "may"?
Yes.