RESERVE BANK NOTES
SIMILARITY OF DESIGN AND COLOUR. LEADS TO COMPLICATIONS. TWO INTERESTING CASES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Wellington, this day. An advertisement in a newspaper yesterday stated that a firm had paid away a £SO Reserve Bank note in mistake for a 10s one.
The similarity of the two notes has been the subject of adverse comment before, and that there is a real danger of confusion is revealed in a further story told to a pressman today. It is to the effect that a debt of 30s was settled on a Karori tramcar betwen two passengers on their way home, one handing over two £1 notes and the other a 10s one. The latter, on arriving home, proposed to treat the family to the sight of a £SO note he had received that day as first payment on a property deal, but it was not on his person. He quickly realised what had happened and lost no time in going to the other man’s home. This incident took place the same day as that of the advertising of the firm, so that on one Tuesday at least four people were confused over these notes.
The note advertised for has not yet turned up, and it will be interesting to know what adventures it has gone through since it was paid ever.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4694, 16 May 1935, Page 5
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222RESERVE BANK NOTES King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4694, 16 May 1935, Page 5
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