The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 16. 1916. CLEANSING OF BANK-NOTES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 16. 1916. CLEANSING OF BANK-NOTES.

Now that bank-not ei» jire legal tender in Now Zealand, tlio public is inclined to be iiKire punctilious ill its aspect towards bank-notes ol a dirty aspect. The greater 'wear on them (occasioned by the paucity of gold in circulation) cause a quicker deterioration than was normally the case. In Levin the cause for complaint in very small, though now and again bank-notes from other centres coine into circulation here and disseminate a few microbes oT strange aspect in the pockete ol people who are temporarily ,or permanently fweil-oflr. From the United Fbates conies news of u mechanism for cleansing banknotes that would be of great benefit to New Zealand if its use were extended to these islands. The United States Federal Bank, we learn, hars a special laundry for the washing of insanitary bwiik-notes, and reports show that as many as seventy-rive thousand one-dollar bills can be cleansed in one day. The expert counters who handle the notes can detect counterfeits while the bills are under cleansing more easily than in any other way. The machines, which are worked by electricity, are in charge of girls known as washers and ironer.s. One girl feeds tsoiled money to the washer and another catches it as it leaves the ironer. All notes are ironed as soon ae washed. Some bankers declarc that those wliioh have been cleansed on wot blankets, passed over rollers of soapy suds, and; sterilised, then ironed with heated rolls, sifted, and scrutinised, are more readily counted than even new issues.