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Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation to Crown agents.

9, Gracechurch Street,

E.C.

8th February 1916

Gentlemen,

With reference to your letter of the 17th January (A/474 ) we beg to inform you that our Singapore office advise us that the amount of their Notes in circulation on the 31st December last was $39,300 (say dollars thirty-nine thousand three hundred)

We have &c

(sa) ?

Sub-Manager

The Chartered Bank of India Australia & China to Crown Agente

38, Bishopsgate,

E.0.

14th February 1916

Gentlemen,

With reference to your letter No. 474 C of 17th ultimo, we have to advise that the aggregate amount of this Bank's notes outstanding in the Straits Settlements on 31st December 1915 according to retume which have just

reached us was

57,095 in Singapore and

56,280 in Penang.

I am &0

(sd)

Wm. Hoggan

Secretary.