DIRTY BANK-NOTES
AS CARRIERS OF INFECTION. The danger to the community of the free circulation of dirty bank-notes was mentioned in tlio House of Representatives yesterday.Dr. Thacker asked the Minister of Finance if he would recognise the seriousness of allowing the banks to issue old, filthy notes as legal tender. Serious diseases were going about, and sucli notes might act as carriers of infection. The Prime Minister said that there appeared to be no legislation on the subject, but there had been a distinct understanding between the banks and the Government that when' notes became filthy they should be called in and destroyed. . . Dr. Thacker: That is not hemg done.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6
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110DIRTY BANK-NOTES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6
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