VISITORS’ SPENDING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 5

VISITORS’ SPENDING.

NEW ZEALAND CURRENCY. TAKING NONE TO AUSTRALIA. v . (Per Press Association)., WELLINGTON, This Day. Three of the Australian passengers on the liner Strathallen. spent the greater part of this morning in an inspection of Wellington shops, at which they could, in their own words, get rid of : New Zealand money they Intel accumulated since their arrival m Auckland on Friday. As one of thie trio, Mr J. a. Kelly, of Melbourne, put it: “My bank manager instructed me on no account to bring New Zealand money back to Victoria. We will not accept it. He told me ‘don’t come back even with five shillings or it will be your own lookout.’ .Mr Kelly remarked in an interview that his companions Messrs J, S. Langridge and T. J. Wilcox, had been given the same advice by their respective bank managers. None of them had been able to’ change their New Zealand currency on the Strathallan, but-tlie reason might be the fact that it was the company’s last cruise this season to New Zealand. They had no difficulty at all in- exchanging Australian notes in New Zealand, and as a result had accumulated a fairly substantial amount of New Zealnd money and ;sinoe they were leaving for Sydney to-night they proposed to (empty their pockets of it to-day.