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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 5

Mr. Tom Shaw, British Labour M.P., during a recent visit to France, told this story: It is said that after the conference at Genoa had finished Lloyd George called the waiter who had served him and gave him several one pound notes. Profuse thanks. Barthou gave a number of French. hundred franc notes. Again thankfulness. Came next the German representative, who gave a bundle of thousand mark notes. Not such deep gratitude. Then the^Austrian handed | over a sheet of paper, which appeared jto be. an official notification. The i waiter looked puzzled, and was told that the paper acknowledged the arrival of a railway waggon full of Aus- | trian notes, and' he could fetch them t as he desired. But Tchitcherin handed ' over a very heavy parcel, which when , opened, was found to contain a numj ber of copperplates. The waiter de- , "manded what they were, and was told , they were for printing notes for ten ' thousand roubles, and he could; print as many as "he. wanted.