SPLIT BANKNOTES.
CHINESE DEFRAUDED. " : SWINDLER'S QUICK EXIT. fBY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] .v ' . " WELLINGTON, Tuesday.. ; Split £1 notes are still being negotiated in the city. Two Chinese fruiterers were among the latest victims of this form of fraud. Both accepted the notes as genuine only to discover too late that they had .~* been over-trusting. Another Chinese was more fortunate, as he unfolded' the note and detected the ■-* fraud. The would-bo swindler thereupon threw down half-a-crown on the countsr in payment of his purchase, snatched the note and decamped. K ABREST AT CHRISTOHUROE. NOTES AT ASHBURTON. TnX TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . ■' ••■ ' CHRISTCHUBCH. Tuesday, .David Goodsir;. a young man, was. y arrested hire this toornitg on a charge of - \ issuing split banknotes at Ashburton.'•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 8
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