OLD, DIRTY AND TORN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 244, 2 December 1940, Page 5

OLD, DIRTY AND TORN

FORMER BANK NOTES PATRIOTIC FUNDS BENEFIT Old, rust-marked, dirty and torn Bank of New Zealand notes to the value of £14 were received through the post from Dunedin recently by the office of the National Patriotic Fund Board, Wellington, for the National Fund. They were sent anonymously and arrived in a small box. There) were three rust-marked £1 notes and a £5 note and there Avere also a £5 note and a £1 note dated 191% the centres of which were eaten away. What was left of these two notes was dirty and also rust-marked, bui most interesting of all Avas that there Avas no signature on the £5 note. The question arose of Avhcther it Avas a bogus note or Avliether Avitli the passage of time the signature had become obliterated. When the notes Avere taken to the bank the first £5 note and the four £1 notes were exchanged without any question for the Keserve Bank notes noAV in use, and the £9 thus receiA T ed Avas banked to the credit of the National Patriotic Fund.' Obviously the £5 note without the signature required some further examination. It Avas referred to the bank's head oftice and. a few days later advice Avas received that it had been accepted as genuine.