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Thing! Reide 57 =
700
A.
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yr Humphreys: -
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The Chairman: -
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It was drawn out of the Hongkong Bank in cash, and 903 paid into the Chartered Bank in cash a portion of it.
24.071 This may explain some of the entries I was asking you
shout this morning. Had you a current account with
the Hongkong Bank at that time ?
No, it was drawn out of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
because the time expired, and paid into ourrent account
and drawn out on a draft, or letter of credit rather
for home,
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Paid into current account with the Chartered Bank?
YEB.
Now, Mr Reidie, the accounts are here, and you can 44013
make what of them you can. There is your Chartered Bank
account, and here is your Hongkong Savings Bank
account of that period, and there is no debit, or credit for any amount such as $900. The transaction so far as the Hongkong Bank can tell me at the moment, is that on 6th septeber 1905, the Hongkong Bank not the
Chartered Bank
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gave you a deposit note with the Bank
for $1900, and you paid cash for it. Now, I understand
you have told the Commission that $900 was an old
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expired deposit note ?
A.
I thought you said before I went home,
Sir.
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This is before you went home. This is in 1905, and you
cashed it six months later in 1906. You know what a
deposit note is ?
A.
Yes.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY I COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE WITH-
Well, it appears you bought for $1900 a fixed deposit note at the Hongkong and ghanghai Rank on the 6th
September 1905, and six months later, you cashed it. You paid ir. $1900, and six months later you took out $1900, and that is the transaction as it passed through
the books. I asked you where the money came from, and
you said you thought $900 or $1000 came from an ole