ALL OVER A POUND

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 8

ALL OVER A POUND

High Officers Of State

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The difficulty experienced iu sending money out of New Zealand was illustrated by Mr. Harold Dickie. M.P. for Batea, in a speech at Westmere. A woman in Mr. Nash’s constituency sought Mr. Dickie’s help to send a pound to her daughter in Brisbane, who was iu distressed circumstances. The sender went to the post office and was advised that she must make out. an application which would be submitted to the Reserve Bank. Hearing nothing for a week, she again went to the local post office and requested that a toll call be put through to 'Wellington. The reply was that an answer had just been posted. The answer intimated a refusal to grant the transmission of the pound. Mr. Dickie saw the Prime Minister, who was disturbed, and sent Mr. Dickie to the Secretary of the Treasury. This official sent him on to the Governor of the Reserve Bank, who eventually gave permission for the pound to be sent. “In what other country in the world would the transmitting of a solitary pound require the united efforts of a Prime Minister, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, and a Member of Parliament? asked Mr. Dickie.