FALSE CHEQUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 270, 12 November 1923, Page 9

FALSE CHEQUES.

MORRIXSVILLE FOLK SUFFER. (By Telesra.h. —fecial to "Star.") i MORRTNSVILLE, this day. On Friday evening a well-built man I came into the town aud bought goods , from several shops, giving cheques on a Te Aroha bank for £14 to £16 as payment. These business people and the | police are now looking for this man, who gave his name as James Gordon, advice having been received this morning that I the cheques were forgeries. t What is a billion? We and the Oermans say that it is the figure 1 with I 12 noughts (a million million), but. the Americans and the French hold .that _ there are only nine noughts (1000 mil' _ lion, or a milliard). English and-Cer-t man style:—Take out your watch and . you will find that it ticks five in two . seconds. That means ISO times every f minute, 9000 times an hour, 216,000 a day. It ticks a million times in 4 -days 15hr _mm 4sec. At that rate it would , take roughly 1-.600 years to tick "a | billion times-. A watch which began to tick at the very beginning of the Christian era would now have in round " figures, 150,000.000,000 ticks behind it, and to accomplish its billion ticks it _ would still have steady work for sorae- » thing like 10,750 years in front of it. So now you know. ii