SPLIT NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 8

SPLIT NOTES.

PUBLIC WARNING.

NEED FOR CARE.

The police have been notified J>y * bank official of the receipt of a *plit ten shilling note, which amounts to a forir of counterfeiting, and shopkeepers sue others who have o«-asion Jo chanjrt money are warned to \«> o n the lookout for this deception. I hi* crime of splitting juijior currency, reuniting ; n the pa»injr <.: the two «un dered part* at face value. i« regarded t>s tli<> authorities ;i< lwing a form of <viun terfeiling for which heavy jn-nnliios ir lines an<l imprisonment )ia\r l.i-in pro--<ril,ed. Will, the approach of tin- holidays and the cou«4»qucnt rii-h }mii<lHiu of a great deal of change it may Iμ? thai some persons, of dishonest intent have prepared to take advantage of the natural oarele-»srjees of holiday-maker? in handling chanjre at raceconrsei- and elsewhere. Henoe the warning to resari carefully all paper money receivod it such circumstances.