CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931 — Page 137

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Bail as before.

Sd.

A.G. Granthan

P.M. 16.12.

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Deft in Court.

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As before.

bth witness I X continued.

Collateral Security Loans are based almost wholly on forms

Ex.I signed by shareholders.

Those forms were definite

★ A debt due

to a Co. is an asser. because it is worth something.

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promises to pay. If they were valid debts they were not

asrets because they were not realisable,

X

bad

A debt is not

A

because it is not worth anything. They are described

collateral security loans - by which I understand additional

security. A lien on the shareholders'a shares is not

security in my opinion.

If a lien on shares is security in

low I agree that these loana are secured. On same assumption

this entry would be verbally correct, though as the debts

are worth nothing as an asset the entry in balance sheet is

inaccurate. I don't know that any money has been collected

on these loans by the Official Receiver,

On other side of balance sheet these sums appear in paid up

capital. In my opinion it was not put in balance sheet

merely to make the balance sheet balance.

But if books of

Co. had been kept correctly items would naturally appear in

balance sheet, as otherwise it would not balance.

word 'collateral security' is commonly used as meaning

security only.

Item Issued & Subscribed Capital.

according to books was $1,474,000.

Issued capital

The entry was correctly

described if the application forms, x., were good applica-

tions for shares, and if the application money had been

received, but from an auditor's point of view $2,613,260 was

not subscribed capital. By subscribed as opposed to issue d

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