In' deciding to issue £1 notes,' the Bank of England is simply reviving '.vliat waa once part of tile currency, of; the realm. It is now about ninety:years fiinco their issue was'discontinued , in' England, in deference to a popular agitation. The fact is'that forgeries had become extremely common, ancl, the : penalty for tfo offence being ■ death, maiiy a'wretched criminal suffered for it on the gallows. A- full battalion of men, consisting of Liverpool commercial workers, were enrolled iii one hour oiie Monday, morn- '. ' b
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2303, 10 November 1914, Page 8
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84Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2303, 10 November 1914, Page 8
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