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1. The appellant holds the post of Principal Assistant Secretary (Management) in the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government. He is employed upon contract at a basic monthly salary of $10,850 to which is added a rent or housing allowance of $7,200. On 6th August 1976 he opened an account with the Banque Nationale de Paris. He was desirous at that time of getting a loan to deal with a pressing tax demand and he wished also to have money for the furnishing of a flat. A senior bank offic