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New Zealand Tablet, 11 September 1913, Page 22

. The familiar impressed legend on cheques, 'Stamp duty—o-ne penny/ would appear, from the report of the Public Service Commissioner, to be very likely to disappear (says the Dominion). Approximately fourteen millions of cheque forms are impressed every yeaft by the Government Printing Office on account of the banks, ihe process of sending the cheques to and from the printing office and the counting of the cheques,', is one that is .cumbrous and expensive. The Commissioner suggests that the Government could quite safely trust the banks to pay the duty' without this laborious process, particularly as the duty on bank notes and on steamer tickets was collected without any such impressed stamp. . „■ J ■