BANK NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 4

BANK NOTES

BUSINESS MEN COMPLAIN.

Many compliant aro being made regarding the notes issued by the New /,ealand banks. Business men protest against the dirty condition of many of the. notis and also against tho lack: of uniformity in the shape and size of the ten shlllwt, n °*MMit I suggest," writes a southern business man, "that the taks.should have a little more consideration tor a long-suffering public than they hays shown in their note issue. When tho exigencies of the war necessitated the issue of ten shilling notes, one of our leading banks inflicted on its customers a pink documont that was as much likei a tea wrapper as a bank note, and a little o. tho hard usage that bank notes aro subjected to soon reduced this to something almost unrecognisable. Then a, bank of recent standing put out a ten shilling note of a different shape and colour, the only similarity being its inability to stand hard wear. Then tho first-men-tioned bank replaced its tea'label with a ten shilling note of an entirely different 6hape, size, and colour, lliis was lol* lowed bv a third bank coining oil tho sceno with a ten shilling note ot exactly the samo shape and about the same biz# as the notes of higher denomination. All this was very confusing and inconvenient to those who have to handle large quantities of notes, but 6urcly the limit lias now been reached by a bank issuing a JBIO note and a il note of the same shape, and as nearly as possible the 6amo size, as the Bank of New Zealand ten shilling (bine) note. In colour and general get up, 100, they are not unlike, and it needs no flight of fancy to predict that when they are a bit worn a man will need his spectacles on to distinguish tho difference between the J;10 and the ten shilling notes. "The banks aro singularly uniform in their observance of bank holidays. Tho same uniformity should prevail with y» gard to the note issue. If bank notes are to continue to bo legal tender, an existing issues should bo 'scrapped, an« a uniform size, shape, and colour scheme adopted. The public should also have the right to refuse to take the disgustingly filthy and derelict notes'that the banks lmnil out time after time."