The authorities wore justined in surmising that Imitations of the 50- cent Provincial bank notes printed 1984 would turn up sooner oF later, Detectives from the 'Treasury recently stopped buses going from Shekwen to Fatshan, and. identified {$200 In crude copies in' possession of 1 passenger.
They were not released unfit the need for fractional currency became $0 roat at the and of last yea: Recently the Provincial Bank, sines counterfeiters have become alive, began calling in this kind, foreseeing they could be, copied quite readily.
"Pong plus," or the Bank's makeshift orders, wont $50 and $100 also have been counterfeited, #0 after get~ ting a "peng pin" order at the Provin-lal Bank originally the Individvai may exchange it for ordinary banknotes after he has told it a month Jonger.
'Apportioned at so much per person among the populace of Kuangtung, will be no trick at all to dispose $10,000,000 worth "of Anti-alreratt Defence Bonds. The Provincial Penples' Council voted that this sum should be raised, Considering methods of dispensing the bonds, te Commissioner of ternal Affairs nnd the Treasurer have} turned thumbs down' on the lea of a rent tox. A levy on all who can ay will be made, so that the ordinary person will hive but a few dimes to pay, a fractional part of a bond.
Messrs. Dodwell & Ca, Honskons. ave the erder from the Bureau of Public Safely for police launch cost Hk$50.000. 'The' speciation tivo the length as 80 fect, the wide as eleven. It will be built ju Hong: kong, tobe ready for delivery by April. Five more. will be arranged for later, though they fikely" will somewhat smaller than this frst one.
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