CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS. TO THE EDITOR.
Sin,—There is an- individual among ua victimising shopkeepers in the following manner :—He purchases some small article, and tenders in payment a half-sovereign. AVhen yo-a have given him bis change, he offers to give you Rilver back for it; you oblige him, but in the meantime he offers your change ana his half-sovereign for a pound note, aakingmeantime for some other trifling article, and throwing down silver for it.' What with thinking the half-sovereign bad (or why such changing), he quietly* walks off with your £1 note for his half-sovereign. Being told it is an old London dodge is my reason for troubling you to insert this letter.—l am, &c, A:Viot_m. November 3.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 6780, 7 November 1883, Page 2
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