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Sir. Vell, excepting that I had to look at his

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Beyond that Naturally you had to look at his premises.

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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Mr Watkine is a man I have simply known by sight. This is not the only dividend I have had from Watkins. They are down here (pocket book). I took up Watkins shares, when Watkins was first formed, and had dividends then. They paid very well for a year or two, and I had 100 at first. I could tell you the shares I held in 1903, if you want to know, by referring to my book. No. You appear to have been doing pretty considerable transactions in shares at various times, and very

considerable sims have been dram and oredited to

your account periodically, no doubt in share transact-

ions.

I borrowed money from the Rank on several occasions

to do it, and paid them for the loan. It has not been

all money that I have had in hand.

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But still, the principal point that struck me was that in one year, when your salary was £500, you were doing shara tranerotions to three or four times that amount. You mean to say that you had a loan account there? For instance, Sugars. I bought them I remember very well at $107, and I believe I was loan $75 by the Rank

for them, so that I only had to pay a little over

175- for them, and I sold those shares at about $195. I dont know that that will appear in my bank account, because it was done through the broker.

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and the But you had an account there under your name, money was advanced to you against certain shares ?

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I believe it was. Of course, I am on oath, and I would

not like to swear to that.

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We dont wish you to commit yourself unnecessarily, but I should tell you that in the Hongkong Bank, there is your current account, and if you take in so many