Conversion Table To Be Prepared

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30631, 23 December 1964, Page 1

Conversion Table To Be Prepared

The decision to “do away” with half-cent coins in the decimal currency system to be introduced in July, 1967, had opened the way for the development of a pence-to-cents conversion table, said Mr Muldoon today.

“I have asked the decimal currency board to proceed with this task, and issue suitable tables so we can begin to familiarise ourselves with new decimal prices,” he said. Tonight he issued a simple conversion table for converting whole pence to whole cents.

Other tables for converting halfpence to whole cents and for converting wage rates and for other purposes, will be issued by the board later. The table states pounds are doubled to obtain dollars and shilling values remain the same—with one shilling becoming 10 cents.

Pence converts to cents as follows:

Id equals Ic. 2d equals 2c. 3d equals 2c. 4d equals 3c. 5d equals 4c. 6d equals sc. 7d equals 6c. 8d equals 7c. 9d equals Bc. lOd equals Bc. lid equals 9c. 1/- equals 10c.

Typical price conversion: Is 4d to 13c, 7s 6d to 75c, 14s lid to one dollar and 49 cents, 27s 6d to two dollars and 75 cents, 79s 6d to seven dollars and 95 cents. £5 10s to 11 dollars, £35 10s to 71 dollars.