It is believed by some that because fingerprints as a means of identification were introduced in England as late as 1901, it is a new science. That is not so, for the Chinese used finger prints as a signature on documents more than 1400 years ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1943, Page 4
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