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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4647, 11 January 1924, Page 3

By means of forged correspondence a man with a remarkable knowledge of banking methods has defrauded the head office of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank of £2500An account was opened in the Sydney head office of the bank recently by the man, and a notification was received at the Melbourne head office that he proposed to visit Melbourne and desired to operate on his account there. Later, a further letter in the bark’s private code gave particulars of the amount standing to the man’s credit in Sydney. Then the man drew £2500 in notes of various denominations, and officials of the bank did not discover until several hours hours later that the communication received, presumably from the Sydney office of the bank, had in reality been sent by a person who by some means had become possessed of the bark’s private code.