FUSS OVER SILVER.
Can anyone toll me just why there need be all the fuss about silver? Where is thenecessity for the law which results in out-') poiiiT passengers being scrutinised, and their luggage subjected to search, every time a ship ' is about to leave Xcw Zealand?. If a mantakes silver away with him lie hasn't got something for nothing, for he has had to pay full value for it in Xew Zealand currency. Suppose all English-minted Xew Zealand silver coins disappeared from circulation herCj and ivere replaced by Australian, shoxild we .ho worse oil"? Both are. token ■ coins, and if ;I fi ,have silver in my pocket.it is,uJuioft certain thatthere aro more Australian" than English.- But no shopkeeper rejects . 0110 in favour . o.f.;the other. Actually there is more, silver in the Australian tliau in. the' English. This being the case, is not pur legislation on the subject slightly ridiculous? If, on the "qthtfr hand,.6iir i coins abroad -are worth, more, than tlicy are worth here, could not the Governmeni-make an honest penny- by itself exporting the lot', and replacing it with Australian, or somts other jequally-acceptable token? simpta" cuiuous. "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 150, 28 June 1933, Page 6
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190FUSS OVER SILVER. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 150, 28 June 1933, Page 6
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