THE bureaucracy of banks is on the rise, as one can see from the Lai See column of July 8. It reports that the Bank of China wants to charge 1/2 a per cent charge over a tiny cash deposit of over HK$5,000. This kind of charge is intolerable. Charges on cash deposits are being deliberately overlooked by the Hongkong Monetary Authority and the Association of Hongkong Banks. NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED