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Tony Jeffrey: he has no "given" name other than Tony. He writes and signs his name "Tony Jeffrey", and is never called Anthony except occasionally by mistaken strangers. Certainly his Statement of Service (Exhibit B) issued on 3 September 1965 by the Central Army Records Office and showing military service in 1943–44 was "issued in respect of Private Tony Jeffrey" and bears the specimen signature "Tony Jeffrey". He has a son named Anthony George Jeffrey, now aged 28, whom he calls Anthony. He has heard others call that son Tony; he would not say a lot of people do so, and would go no further than to admit that it was "possible" that his son has friends who do so.
The applicant was anxious to establish that the name and signature Tony Jeffrey pointed infallibly to him and not to his son and the name and signature Anthony Jeffrey or A, Jeffrey to his son and not to him. His own evidence militated against the acceptance of that suggestion. His statement that the signature A. Jeffrey on Exhibit 4 "could not be mine" would, if accurate, mean that it was his son's, that his son was carrying on business in New South Wales under the business name "All Diggers Floral Service" in 1958 at the age of about ten, and that his son signed the form in 1966 at the age of about eighteen without giving the information required by the form of a person aged under twenty-one. Similarly, by his assertion that the signature "Tony Jeffrey" on Exhibit 5 could be his but could be his son's too, he impliedly accepted the latter possibility.
I shall, now set out the events leading up to the sequestration order.
In November 1971 a Mr. De Havilland, then a sales representative employed by Claude Neon Limited, went to a
