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Cash book containing transactions such as salaries and other payments to staff, payments relating to Basingstoke depot, petty cash, payments to the pension fund, payments to the Sainsbury Staff Association. Covers 1966/67 periods 3 to 11.

The cash book is arranged with debit transactions on the left hand side of each folio (double page) and credits on the right. Each transaction is classified under an account code and placed in the appropriate column of the table eg "Sales" or "Bought Ledger". Transactions under other account codes which do not have a specific column in the table are placed in the "Sundries" column with the account code written in the "Sundries Code" column.

Left hand (debit) columns: [date]; [description]; Total S49/37; Contra S46/102; Main Canteens C5/67; Sales 30/1; Estate A/c's S44/11; Sundries; Sundries Code.

Right hand (credit) columns: [date]; [description]; Total S49/37; Contra S46/102; SBA I 30/51 [Blackfriars wages?]; SBA II 30/49; Bought Ledger 30/1; Sundries; Sundries Code.

Examples of debit transactions include:
Cash banked by service branches
Cash banked by self-service branches
Canteens
Sales
Estate
JS Ltd No 2 account payments
Contra
Basingstoke wage refunds
Payments from named companies relating to estates
Foreign currency and travel related payments (relating to named individuals)
Basingstoke sales

Examples of credit transactions include:
"S.B.A. 2" payments to named staff
Creditors cash - credit transfers
Payments to Midland Bank account at Basingstoke
Petty cash payments for Streatham and Blackfriars offices
Payments to the Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance (relating to Basingstoke depot)
Depot wage payments
Solicitor fees
Foreign currency for staff
Payments to J.S. Ltd No 4 Account (includes Haverhill Meat Product sales, and pig invoices)
Payments to USDAW (Union of Shop and Distributive Workers)
Payments to Sainsbury Staff Association
Payments to the pension fund (divided into officials, managers, SBA 2, depot, branches, farms, Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill - abbatoir, Haverhill - egg account)
JS Ltd Buntingford
JS Ltd Hoddesdon
Payments to insurance companies