BANK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1935, Page 7

BANK NOTES.

Tendered After Escaping

Incinerator.

STORY FROM AUSTRALIA,

SYDNEY, January 8,

The "Sun" publishes a sensational story to the effect that of £1750 worth of Bank of Kew Zealand notes placed in an incinerator in Sydney for destruction some escaped the fire in a mysterious manner and now are in circulation here and in New Zealand.

Detectives are. testing a theory that after the notes were placed in the furnace some may have been blown through the funnel by the violent draught.

Tho police say the notes bore no official signatures and had two corners clipped off in order to deface them, a fact which possibly would escape the notice of the average person.

The notes were shipped from Wellington to Sydney in order to enable the bank authorities to obtain a refund of Customs duty when the lleservc Bank's notes replaced them.

TWO NOTES PRESENTED

BANK MANAGEB,'S STATEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Mr. F. W. Dawson, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, to whom the Sydney cablegram was referred this evening, stated that so far only two £10 notes had been presented for payment, which had been refused. One was presented in Auckland and the other in Sydney. The notes, which were part of those placed in the incinerator at Sydney.for destruction, had two corners clipped off and bore no official signatures. The destruction of the notes was carried out under the supervision of responsible officers, and it was thought probable tliat when tho fastenings of some of the bundles were broken a few might have escaped burning and been carried out of the furnace by the draught.