NEW ZEALAND MONEY

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND MONEY

NOT WANTED IN AUSTRALIA. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 13. Three of the Australian passengers on the Strathallan spent the greater part of this morning in an inspection of Wellington shops, at which they could, in their own words, get rid of the New Zealand money they had accumulated since their arrival in Auclc land on Friday. As one of the trio, Mr. J. A. Kelly, of Melbourne, put it. “My bank manager instructed me on no account to bring New Zealand money back to Victoria. ‘We won’t accept it,’ he told mej ’Don’t come back, even -with five shillings, or it will be your own lookout.’ ” Mr. Kelly remarked, in an interview, that his companions, Messrs J. B. Langridge and T. J. Wilcox, had been given the same advice, by their respective bank managers. None of them had been able to change their New Zealand currency on the Strathallan, but the reason might be the fact that it was the -company’s last cruise this season to New Zealand. They had [ip difficulty at all in exchanging Australian notes in New Zealand, and as ?, result, had accumulated a. fairly substantial amount of New Zealand money. Since they were leaving for Sydney, to-night, they proposed to empty their pockets of it, to-day.