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Was that in payment of some particular account? 24234

and That is to put in the bank. Exchange was going up,

I was going on leave next year.

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And you also sent some money for Mrs Parking ? 24.235- That was a subscription I collected. I was treasurer

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of a subscription for a widow and four children.

That was £93 ?

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In January next year, you sent home £160 ?

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That was the balance of my account.

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And shortly afterwards, you paid Melohere $1300roughly

presumably that was for passage money?

Yes, Sir.

Then I see that you are drawing a salary ranging 14 239

somewhere from about £195 to £230 a year?

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2215 at present, Sir, a year.

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While you are drawing your salary, you still pay a very large sum of money into your own Savings Bank account, and Mrs Brett also is paying money into her Savings Bank account, and there are practically no drafts against that. Now, I will give you a case in point. Retween June 30th 1901 and October 11th of mext

year,

that is to say a year and four months, you pay into the bank into your own account rather over $600, and in the same period you pay $1045 to the credit of Mrs Brett's account. Altogether that is about $1700,

and there is practically nothing draw out against that

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what were you living on in the interval ?

I was keeping two lodgers.

And did two lodgers pay all your living expenses ? 24.24/ Yes. I have had three lodgers staying in my house.

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