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door of the safe.
The safe keys were invariably kept by yourself?
No, they were at times placed in the custody of a senior officer,
generally one of my Surope an assistants, or the lady whom I have
designated as the Cashier, for the special purpose of going to the safe
to take out some money.
I mean overnight?
No, overnight I took the keys myself.
You invariably had the safe key?
Yes, and the key of the strong room door, the safe being in the strong
room.
Both these keys were invariably in your custody overnightî
Yes, I may say that lately I had to hand one of the keys of the strong room door to one of my other officers, they were changed from time to time. I could not be there at all times on the opening and closing of the strong room door.
Was that overni, ht?
Certainly after Mr. Taylor's transference to my office. generally carried one of the keys.
When you say one of the keys are they duplicate keya?
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One of the duplicate keys.
There are two other small matters
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If my
Mr. Puaney has referred to more than once. One is the handling of cash by unsecured persons. memory has served me right Mr. Pudney has suggested that at one time when he taxed you with allowing unsecured persons to have the handling of cash you said to him or suggested to him that their social or educational standards were such that it would be an insult to ask them to give security. Is there any foundation whatsoever for that? There is, but, as given, the statement is misleading. I think it refers to a conversation between Mr. Putney and myself in his office when we were discussing the taking of deposit securities from passen- gers or by Assistant Immigration Officers and the need to get the se officers secured. I resisted the auggestion on the grounds that it was extremely difficult to find men of the right type and that the demand for financial security might place out of the running a large
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