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Yra Brett's Savings Rank account is accounted for in (Reads account). The Perkins' the following manner. Fund was remitted home on the 3rd October 1904, and appears as debited ir. Mr Brett's current account. Mrs Charles Prett's savings Rank account was closed or theth January 1905. On the 9th January 1905, $1400 was transferred to Mr Brett's current account. On the

$1217.86 13th January, the account was finally closed,

being transferred to Yr Prett's current account. "o

rather both these amounts are credited to him account, more than three months after the remittance of the Perkins' family. And the same day that he transferred $1400 from Mrs Brett's Savings Bank account to the current account, he purchased a draft on the Internat- ional Pank at four months sight for £160, "or which

his account with the Hongkong Rank le debited $1625.89,

and on the 13th January, the day that Yrs Prett's account was finally closed, a cheque was drawn. år. favour of Welchers and Company for $1349.09, which T understand was for parcage money.

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Yae, Sir.

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So that disposes of Mrs Brett's Savings Pank account. The money FD saved from time to time has not been explained to the Commission, and the amount se

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disposed of by a draft on London, which had nothing to

do with the Parkins' Fund, or the passage money,

did it come from?

where

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730.

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I came by that money honestly, Sir. It was all my own

money.

24273 It is a great deal more than your salary, and you have no investments. Now, where did it come from? I forgot to tell you, gentlemen, that I went to Shanghai ir. 1903 and won a few pounds at the Races there. I did not put it in the Bank. I kept it, and I

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