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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1922, Page 3

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Watch the A. and A. Stores add in j Thursday, Friday and Saturday. An ' important announcement will then ho ' made in reference to sugar supplies. | Just on two years ago a package of I one thousand National Bank of New Zealand notes was stolen from an overseas vessel, apparently on the voyage from England to New Zealand. For a time the notes, bearing forged signatures, were fairly freely circulated, but the fact was widely advertised, and business people and the public generally examined notes of National Bank issue lest their numbers should run from A 599,801, to A 600.000. The thieves withdrew from the note market, and for the best part of a year very few, if any, of the stolen notes have been discovered. Now, however, it is reported that they are again being circulated, hut precautions have been taken to render them as unrecognisable as possible, by altering the series numbers with a numbering stamp. In most eases the initial fives have been altered to eights, but the alterations have been rather clumsily carried out, and an ordinary careful examination will disclose whether notes dated January 1, 1918 are forgeries or not. The bank is refusing to pay out on the stolen notes.

We call the general public’s attention to an important announcement by tlie A. aiul A. Stores to be inserted in our advertising columns to-morrow. All those people desirous of securing sugar for the jam season are advised to watch our columns during the next few days.