GOVERNMENT CHEQUES.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FRAUD. TREASURY REGULATIONS. (Feom Cue Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, November 15. An additional Treasury regulation has been gazetted in regard (o the drawing of Government cheques. It provides that officers when drawing cheques must exercise care to obviate the possibility of the fraudulent manipulation of sums expressed in figures, and words must be written as near the left-hand margin as possible. There should be no blank spaces between the money symbols and the words and figures representing the amount of the cheques, and lines should bo drawn between so that additions to the amount l cannot be made. Cheque books when not in use must be kept securely locked up.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 6
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113GOVERNMENT CHEQUES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 6
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