22 DECEMBER 1950, Page 4

I am asked to appeal for the issue of plastic

Treasury Notes, on the ground that the present notes, being made of paper, are filthy and unhygienic. I expect they are ; no doubt my own state of rude health is due to the fact that I see so few of them. I am not familiar with all the properties of plastics, but I have an idea that they might be uncongenial to watermarks and other devices to frustrate forgers. Apart from that, why not plastic notes ?