EXCHANGE WAS LIKE ROBBERY
LONDON. April 7. “Exchange was very like robbery in this case,” Mr. Thomas Uosworth, exMayor of St. Kilda, Melbourne, told the special representative of the Sun. Among tho passengers on the Baradinc, he said, was a disabled British soldier, who was returning after relinquishing a small New Zealand farm. Owing to the recurrence of war injuries, lie lost the uso of both legs. During the voyage he was entirely destitute, and Mr. Unsworth organised a “whipround,” raising £29 for him, but because it was all in Australian notes the soldier was penniless on bis nrrjyal a* Plymouth, where lie had to bo carried ashore, and was nimble to pay for a conveyance. Through the intervention of Australia House, Mr. IJnsworth has just succeeded in ‘'ashing the Australian notes at 18s each.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 2
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