PUTTING IT OVER
UNSUSPECTING SHOPKEEPERS TRICKED YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS Currency presents matters of moment, and to the wherewithal for purchases there has been added a form of tender which does not work out well for the unsuspecting shopkeeper. It bears no official sanction but shows some ingenuity on the part of the tenderers. For use in play shops and in schools there are facsimiles in cardboard of coins, atul they are good money educationally.: Seemingly their real purchasis worthless, but a little cunning has altered that. In,one case, at any rate, the cardboard coins have proved as valuable as their equivalent in real money. Young messengers for mother not infrequently present to the shopkeeper the money wrapped in paper, and this has been the modus operandi of some boys in tendering the cardboard money. The desired goods . are ordered, and on being received the "money" packet is delivered and immediately a hasty getaway is made. The young purchaser is unlucky, of course, if the money is demanded before the goods arc handed over, and that is the likely procedure after the experience of • one shopkeeper.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 106, 5 January 1940, Page 5
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184PUTTING IT OVER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 106, 5 January 1940, Page 5
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