The m.s. Australia Star sailed from Gisborne at 3.25 p.m. to-day for Auckland.
A pointed illustration of the meaning of devaluation of the currency as it happened in Austria after the war was given, not without a touch of humour, by Dr. Paul Denglcr during an address at Auckland on Austria, lie related how before the war a benevolent aunt had planned to give him a year’s first-class travel about the world. For this purpose he had calculated that 8000 kronen would be necessary, and she had put aside that amount for him. The trip was delayed, however, and then the war came. “I never got that money,” Dr. Denglcr said, “because the street car fare to the office where it. was deposited was 16,000 kronen. It is still there.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 15
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