QUICK MONEY-MAKING.
WHEN THE WAR 'BEGAN. How. the first Currency Notes were produced is told in the report of the select Committee on the working of the Stationery OfficeSir F- Atterbury, the Controller, was instructed at midnight on Ist August, It'll (three days before war was declared), to prepare 4,000,000 £l. notes. "These notes," he said in evidence, "had to be designed, plates had to bo made, paper provided, and the notes printed. By the morning of Friday, the 7th, these 4,000,000 notes were in the hands of the bankers. Now that was simply a stupendous piece of work. I do not wish to claim great credit for myself, but the contractors and myself spent the whole intervening time on that particular work. There was no possibility of obtaining any competition. As everyone knows, you cannot get up a competition and begin work within a day, and this work was begun on Sun day, <2nd August. By working night and day the firm succeeded in accomplishing this huge task."
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1919, Page 6
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169QUICK MONEY-MAKING. Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1919, Page 6
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