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new notes received in exchange therafor against

cash requisitions made on them in terms of the

above cited memorandum.

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I am not aware to what extent the group

banks, the Minister of Finance and yourself con-

sider the £1,000,000 advance as a reserve against

the new note issue, but, after a perusal of the

memorandum and bearing in mind my om preconceived

ideas on the subject, I venture to hold that the prinary purpose to which it should be devoted the formation of a reserve, and that, while the

encashment of notes presented by impatient er aus-

picious hälders cannot well be refused, the prac- tice should be discouraged as much as possible. The contention of the British and German banks on the other hand is that redemption shall take place dollar against dollar, in other words that the whole advance shall be thrown into, and absorbed by, the market leaving the new issue without a single dollar behind it, thus creating a reversion

This contention is based to the status quo ante. on their reading of paragraph 7 section (s) of the menerandum, which states inter alia that "all new notes paid shall be retained in safe custody

To act by the chief cashier of department B". literally in terms of this sentence would witk- draw all new notes from circulation and leave the market bare of a currency medium, because so far nost dollara received in exchange have been skip- ped out of the province. The only explanation,

of/

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