A carrier pigeon which fell exhausted on the deck of the Homeric on its outward voyage, has been restored to its owner after a free trip of 6,000 miles to America and back.
Clay tablets from ancient Babylonia and Assyria show that bankirg transactions, not very different from thosof the present time, were carried on four or five thousand years ago. Cheques and nok- were made of clay, which was. then hardened.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 9
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72Untitled Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 9
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