GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
FORGED NOTES CIRCULATING. Christuhurch, Nov. 15. Under cover of the pressure of .business of Christchurch Carnival Week a number of forged banknotes, purporting to be £1 notes on the Bank of Australasia and the National Baink of New Zealand, have been put in -circulation. They are photographic reproductions that, when, circulated at &■ b.iisy time, .would be passed unnoticed by many people, but are easily distinguishable , from the original notes on close examination, These notes were found by the Union Bank of Australia in a very large quantity Of banknotes paid in,by t| ( c Canterbury Jockey Club. They hall been paid in through the totalkator, and it was owing to their being amongst such a large quantity of notes, which took some time sorting, that their, presence was not discovered earlier.', ~,_'.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1917, Page 2
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132GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1917, Page 2
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