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A. They did actually ask me if I would want security from them and I
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said no.
What I want to get at is why Goverment should come into it at all.
why should your shroffs be secured to the satisfaction of Goverment
and why should they be approved by Government?
In case I would be handling Goverment money.
There was a possibility you might have to handle Government money.
That I did not know.
You contemplated the possibilitys
I might receive instructions.
From
A. From anybody. I regarded är. Forrest as my senior officer.
There are one or two things I want to ask you about this agreement.
It is firstly following on another statement of yours that you were
prepared to give security and you had imagined that security was
likely to be required of you as a condition to your appointment as a
general agent!
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Did you ever sugge
either to ar. Forrest or your solicitors that
clause providing for security should be embodied in this agreement?
I don't know if I have suggested that. I actually added only a few
what I thought were improvements to kir. Forrest'e draft.
You know there is no provision for security?
I know that.
And it did not strike you it would be a wise provision to make:
A. I did not know of it.
You were able to have given security and would it not have been better
for you to say 'look here, let us put in a clause to provide for
aecurity1ì
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I did not think of it at that time.
You thought of it before and after that time i
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when the contract was in my hands I was under the control of the
Immigration Officer.
You were a party to the contract. You have said you had made certain
amendments and alterations. Did it not occur to you that it would be
a prudent thing to make a provision to that effect.