FINGER-PRINT CHEQUES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5963, 24 July 1912, Page 1

FINGER-PRINT CHEQUES.

NEW BULB FOE SIGNING IN' BANKS.

" lYour fingerprint, please," is the novel demand now being made, by clerks in increasing numbers in New York' banks of all ladies and gentlemen desirous of cashing cheques. The customer is given an ink pad and a card. On this he or she is directed to place three fingers and the first joint of etch thumb. The clerk compares the impressions with records in the cashier's oilice, and presents tho customer with a little bottle of spirits of turpentine and a piece of cotton wool for tho removal of the ink stains. Only after this ordeal 'km bpen successfully accomplished may tho customer reoei'-e, cash for his or her cheque. The Williamsburg Savings 'Bank was tho first institution to adopt the system. Other banks, finding that it entailed much delay, appointed a special clerk, whose duty it is to persuade ladies to remove their gloves and to sulbniit to the inky operation.