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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4349, 30 November 1921, Page 2

“ You will be sentenced to 23 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be sus pended as long as you pay £2 per week,” says Mr K. F. Hunt, S.M., at the Petone Magistrate’s Court, of a debtor who said he would nqL par his debts until he was paid by his creditors. “Well, I’ll go and do the 23 days,” said the defendant. Mr Hunt:, "All right; purely a matter of choice.”

From time tp time we hear an outcry against the use of dirty bank notes, bu.t still. the matter does not get proper attention. Manj/of the notes in circulation are filthy in the extreme, and must surely be insanitary, and possibly the means of spread ing disease through the land. Tne matter is referred to in "The Banker," organ of tjhe New Zealand Officers’ Guild. This journal remarks • “This is a matter which cannot be altogether controlled by the banks. Since the war ended a determined effort has been made to improve the state of circulation, and it was stated by the Prime Minister, Sir Massey, that he had been informed by.. one bank that, during the last twelve months 811,000 notes had been cancelled. No one can deny that the state of our paper currency at tjha present time is infinitely better than it, was during the years of the war, when, owing to the difficulties of obtaining supplies of note forms from England it was not expedient to cancel our paper too freely. No bank in New Zealand will issue a note if it is not fairly clean, and no bank will refuse to exchange a soiled and dir,ty note which may be presented for one in good condition. A note inay pass through hundreds of hands before being presented at a bank, and its soiled and malodorous condition is more often than not the result of apathy on the part of the holder, who is able, if he wishes, to obtain his remedy at the telling counter of the nearest branch of the bank which has issued it."