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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 3

“A good deal of confusion and perhaps some loss has been caused by differences between notes of the samo_ denomination issued by the various banks, and the banks have done so well dut of the public that they can afford to study the public’s convenience. Me hope that they will go further, and see that notes in circulation are cleaner. There are, wo believe, differences of opinion about the danger of banknotes as germ carriers, but the dirtiness of many notes is sufficient to make tho 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, wo cannot help wondering what may be- the responsibility of notes as transmitters of disease. If the public is denied gold, it is entitled to clean notes, and wo hope that the banks will devise a scheme of cleansing notes or of renewing them more frequently.—Auckland “Stax.”