—lt is almost impossible to convoy a popular idea as to wjhat a million sovereigns means, let alone millions, ■which is our estimated expenditure for the Hrst year of the war. A million sovereigns weigh 7.8&1S tons, so that out expenditure would represent 8935 tons of sovereigns. If the sovereigns were piled one on top of the other they would make a column 1085 miles, high. Were they placed edge to edge they would make a lino 15.705 miles_ long, which would extend from Brest in Western France to Singapore in the Straits Settlements and back to Brest.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 74
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