Dirty Bank-Notes
Repeated complaints are being made about the dirty and dilapidated condition of the present bank-note issue. When the Reserve Bank notes were first put in circulation in 1934 they were described as “temporary,” and it is quite obvious that the paper on which they were printed was distinctly inferior in quality to that used previously for the issues of the different trading banks. These “temporary” notes have now been in use for three years. Many of the £1 and 10s notes are worn to limp rags; others' have torn and serrated edges; practically all are so dirty that handling them is distasteful.The banks are constantly sorting out the worst cases and securing replacements; but the bulk of the notes in circulation are far from satisfactory. In the hands of tourists they are, moreover, a poor advertisement for New Zealand, compared with the crackling notes of other countries. If the Government is anxious to control currency and credit “in the interests of the people”, it might well begin, in a small but not unimportant way, by giving them some fresh, crisp bank-notes.
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Southland Times, Issue 23254, 17 July 1937, Page 6
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183Dirty Bank-Notes Southland Times, Issue 23254, 17 July 1937, Page 6
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