THE AUCKLAND SENSATION.

West Coast Times, 17 April 1914, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND SENSATION.

COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES. j fj*® PBEBS ASSOCIATION.—f'OPYEIGHT.J j AUCKA-.w, April 16. Persons with counterfeit £lO notes are still reporting their losses to the police, and the, total number of notes traced to date is between 100 and 120. The young dark foreigner who distributed the. notes apparently confined his attention almost wholly to Karangahapo Pond and Syniunds Street. Inquiries to-day show 'that at least 22 Symond St. shopkeepers were victimised. Apart, from those two shopping areas, the thief visited Elleslie Kacoicourse, where the number of notes were passed through the totalisator, and called on about twenty hotels, where in each case he purchased a flask of brandy and tenedeml a ten pound note in payment.

The fact that no counterfeit notes are known to have been given to shopkeepers since Saturday indicates that tlie counterfeiter made tho lies! use. of his time since Saturday in covering up Ids tracks from the detectives, who are now giving a very great deal of time Da the case.