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$700, I think.

Dollars or pounds ?

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Do you remember about what salary you were drawing in

1909 You were presimably then a first clars

Sanitary Inspector, you were appointed a Plague Inspector in Janury 1903. Roughly, what was the salary you would be drawing about that time, do you know ?

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The same as it is now, I think.

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Hardly. You are getting the maximum of $2,040 a year, which is paid at 3/-, and is converted back to the rate

of the day.

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I find that between February 1902 and Sptember of the same year, you deposited over $2,000 in the Savings Bank of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

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practically repr sents the whole of your salary for that period, and you drew out nothing. Nothing was draw out from the Bank imtil May of the following year. That dose the Commission understand by that Is that what you actually saved, and the balance of your

salary?

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I dont know how long I was there before that. There is nothing brought over. It in when you first opened your Savings Bank account on the 3rd vehruary 1902 with a payment in of $250.

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1902 I had been 12 months back off leave by then. You paid in money as I say you paid in $2,130 between February and September of 1902, and you paid it in in fairly regular amounts of $280, $250, $150,

$ 200, $250, and so on.

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You, and so it went on imtil May 13th of 1903 before you draw out any money at all. Were you living just