AMERICAN SPENDING
Representing individual purchases by American servicemen, 6,000,000 dollars (about £1,800,000) are stated to be held in Auckland trading banks. None of this amount resulted from an official or lend-lease transaction. Most of the money is understood to be in one-dollar, five-dollar and ten-dollar bills. Most of the 6,000,000 dollars represents what the Americans had with them on their arrival in this country, as all their pay here was in New Zealand currency.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 4
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74AMERICAN SPENDING Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 4
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