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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4

A cidentally tearing in two a Treasury note the other day (a correspondent wrote recently to the “Manchester Guardian”), I took it to the bank and asked what they could do about it. It was all very simple—just a matter of sticking together the two pieces with stamp edging and signing it, and the old note was exchanged for a brandnew one. But the bank manager mentioned that all such cases are not so simple. He recalled a recent instance of a man bringing in a badly torn note, of which some pieces were missing. For him the penalty was the filling up of a long list of questions'. One of the most vital was: “Where are the missing portions of the note? ’ To this he replied tersely: “Inside dog.” Perhaps the authorities realised that after this succinct answer further inquiries were hopeless. At all events the explanation was accepted and the note promptly replaced.