BANK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 4

BANK NOTES.

The announcement that the banks are to issue notes uniform in size and colour will be universally welcomed. A good deal of confusion and perhaps some loss has been caused by differences between notes of the same denomination issued by the various banks, and the banks have done so well out of the public that they can afford to study the public's convenience. We hope that they will go further, and 6ee that notes in circulation are cleaner. There are, we believe, differences of opinion about the danger of bank notes as germ carriers, but the dirtiness of many notes is sufficient to make the average person uneasy on this score, to say nothing of the offence to his sense of smell. When we see foodstuffs handled publicly by hands that have just been in contact with filthy notes we cannot help wondering what may be the reSpon. sibility of notes as transmitters of disease. If the public is denied gold, it is entitled to clean notes, and we hope that the banks will devise a scheme of cleansing notes or of renewing them more frequently.