THE TREASURY ROBBED.
“DUMMY” NOTES SUBSTITUTED. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS INVOLVED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 31, 1 a.m. Melbourne, May 30. It is believed an extensive fraud has ,been perpetrated in the note issue department, involving a loss to the department of many thousands of pounds. The Treasury officials are reticent, but it i# understood a quantity of old bank notes, which should have been cancelled and destroyed, were abstracted, “dummy” bundles being substituted and the genuine notes circulated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1924, Page 5
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79THE TREASURY ROBBED. Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1924, Page 5
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