Our Ministry of Health, which liae done some very foolish things since its inception two years ago, would do something really worth while if it could persuade the Treasury to stop issuing paper money and replace it by porcelain coins similar to those in use on. the Continent (says the London "Morning Post”). We came into possession of a ten shilling note the other day which was a disgrace to civilisation-. It was the limit in filthiness. Disease lurked in its creases and it was the abiding place of countless bacilli. It took away one’s self-respect to bo the owner , of such an abomination. Now, if the Treasury issued half-sover-eigns in porcelain we could wash them with the utmost ease. But will Dr. Addison tell r.-i what to do with the present germ-infested Treasury notes? A.bana ond Phnrpar, the rivers of Damascus, could < not cleans©, them of their lepioßy.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19210319.2.72.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
149Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in