UP WITH THE GAME
Mr R. D. Muldoon, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary to the Minister of Finance, showed last evening that he was up with the “Aussie florin game.” He was asked at a Workers’ Educational Association lecture on decimal currency whether steps were being taken to remove Australian 2s pieces before the changeover to decimals. “As fast as we take them out, those confounded Aussies bring them in again,” said Mr Muldoon. “And when you return to New Zealand with a
pocket full of Australian silver, you don’t try to have the coins changed for the New Zealand equivalent, do you? You just pass them over ‘heads’ up.” Mr Muldoon asked if they were a great problem in Christchurch, because he hardly ever saw one. His questioner complained that even the banks handed them out. "They’ll take them back," said Mr Muldoon. “So will anyone if they’re caught But you just pass them across ‘heads’ up, and three out of four will go.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30767, 3 June 1965, Page 16
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