LAW IN GERMANY
EXPORT OF MONEY NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPERIENCE VjJ, . The German law which prohibits tourists leavir.g the country with any German currency in their possession caused annoyance and personal loss to ||; Mr. It. B. Tingey, who returned to Christchurch recently after a trip abroad, t The day before he left Cologne for Croydon he had to change some English money into marks, and had 39 (equal to about £3 10s) left when he». arrived at the aerodrome next '■ morning. , , The wallets of all the passengers -were carefully examined by officials, <£nd when Mr. Tingey's marks were 1 'discovered he learned that he could not take German money out of the country.' . , Argument proved futile, so he had to be content with a receipt for the money left behind. The receipt he -managed to sell in London at a loss.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22269, 18 November 1935, Page 8
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