BARTERING IN SYDNEY
A SIGN OF THE TIMES
(From TJie Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, lSth June.
It is not without good cause that the century-old "Sydney Morning Herald" deviates, if ever so slightly, now and again from a; broad unalterable paliey pursued by it very successfully right down the long years, And vyheji, as was tha ease a few days ago, it announced, a new advertising column, "for persons who desire to exchange goods., for which they may have rio other further use, for other artialos;" it was eloar proof of the tendency in Sydney nowadays to. adopt q. system or barter, with a shortage"x of actuU' money consequent'upon the closing of the State Savings Bank" or other causes of financial embarrassment. The owner of a motor-car, for example, knows that a cash buyer for it at a reasonable figure is as far off as the. millennium, so he exchanges it for,something, other than money, that he needs. " • ' :
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 8
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157BARTERING IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 8
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