Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 23, 1990 TAG: 9005230087
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Agence France Presse
DATELINE: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA LENGTH: Short
The country's Reserve Bank announced Tuesday it is going to replace all paper bank notes with plastic bills that are cleaner, more durable and harder to counterfeit.
The reserve, or central bank, said plastic five-dollar notes would appear in September while other denominations would go plastic over the next three years.
The central bank issued the world's first plastic 10-dollar note in 1988 for the bicentennial celebration commemorating the arrival of European settlers here.
by CNB