STOLEN NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1934, Page 5

STOLEN NOTES

ALARM AT AUCKLAND. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, December 15. Considerable concern has been caused to the Bank of New Zealand officials and the police by the reappearance in circulation of a number of cancelled and unsigned £lO Bank of New Zealand notes, which recently were shipped from Wellington to Australia. One of these notes was paid into the Auckland branch last Wednesday, and it was quickly identified, as it was unsigned, and both the bottom right and top left corners were cut off. Recently a number of these notes were printed in Australia, and were received by the Head Office, but, as the new Reserve Bank notes had superseded them, they could not be circulated. As there is a heavy duty on note forms, it was decided to ship them back to Australia and obtain a rebate. The notes were cut at two of the corners before shipping, and on arrival in Australia, they were to be counted and examined before being destroyed. How one note has been returned is a mystery, and the presumption is that it, and probably others, were stolen after the shipment left the Dominion.