No Immediate Change To Decimal Money
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, May 25. There is no immediate likelihood of Britain switching to decimal currency after
yesterday’s announcement that she is to change to the metric system of weights and measures.
“It is certainly not being contemplated at the moment to change from sterling currency," a Treasury spokesman told Australian Associated Press today. Since it came into office last November the Labour Government had given very little thought to the recurring demands in some industrial and other quarters for decimal currency.
This was essentially a very long-term problem and public opinion was probably by no means ready for it yet, the Treasury spokesman said. In any case, there was felt to be less urgency about changing the currency system than there was for the weights and measures change, which would greatly facilitate some export dealings.
It is pointed out that the British public has not yet got used to the 24-hour clock which is relatively simple. These fundamental changes seem to take a long time to become accepted.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30761, 27 May 1965, Page 10
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