Hearing recalls witness
ll*. • e," • PA,, ‘ Auckland The Australian ;/: Royal Commission into; drug trafficking yesterdayrecalled a witness .who? gave evidence .on the. opening day. of its Auckland sittings.' - The witness recalled was ’John Douglas Rountree, an assistant manager / of; the National Bank in Auckland. • ; / Mr/Rountree was-referred i to the evidence? which he gave on Monday and asked about docuihents' to support ’a particular transaction. He said that he had now
been able tb find the documents and had a bank cheque issued ;by : the National Bank for?-, $9240. dated August 6, 1979. . ..,, The bank cheque was issued Don the instructions of a particular customer (unnamed). He said that' the cheque was negotiated, on ■August 8; 1979, when it was lodged in an account with the .Bank, of New South Wales, Parnell. After the> bank officer’s evidence, - the commission continued the hearing in camera.
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