N.Z. MONEY NOT WANTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 6

N.Z. MONEY NOT WANTED

m AUSTRALIAN BANKS WARNING TO TOURISTS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Three of the Australian passengers on the liner Strathall'an spent the greater part of this morning in an inspection of Wellington shops at which they could, in. their own words, ''got rid of the New Zealand money they have accumulated since their arrival at Auckland on Friday." As one of the trio, Mr. J. A. Kelly, Melbourne, put it: "My bank manager instructed' me on no account to bring New Zealand money back to Victoria. We won't accept it,' he told me. 'Don't come back even with 5s or .it will be ,'our own look-out.' " Mr, Kelly remarked in an interview <hat his companions, Messrs. J. B. Langridge and J. Wilcox, had been »iven the same advice by their respective bank managers. None of them had been able to change their New Zealand, currency on the Strathallan. but the Reason might be the fact that it was the company's last cruise this -eason to New Zealand. They- had no difficulty at all in exchanging Australian] notes in New Zealand, and as n result had accumulated a fairly substantial amount of New Zealand money and .since they were leaving for 'Sydney to-night, they proposed to empty their pocket 9 of it to-day.