Character reference to accompany migration application of Sym Choon

Reference provided by Herbert Mayor, Manager, Eastern Branch of the English Scottish and Australian Bank Ltd.

Transcript

[Handwritten in red in the top right corner:] 21/1981

[Letterhead in black ink:] The English Scottish and Australian Bank Limited.

Eastern Branch, [Underlined in black ink]

Adelaide.

17th March 1921,

The Collector of Customs,

ADELAIDE. [Underlined in red ink]

Dear Sir,

This is to certify that Sym Choon [underlined in red], Produce Merchant ['Rundle St' added in black ink], Adelaide, has been a customer of this Branch for a number of years and is of Good character and reliable man of business.

[Handwritten] I have known him [addition: 'personally'] for the last 12 [illegible – possibly 'mths']. [End handwritten]

Yours faithfully,

[Handwritten signature] Herbert Mayor

Manager.

[Handwritten in bottom left corner]

Alex Jasper

17/3/21

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