SHILLING NOTES
SHORTAGE OF SILVER
FIJI GOVERNMENT ISSUE
A shortage of silver coinage in Fij,i lias led to the issue, as legal tender by the Government of Fiji, of paper money for silver. They arc on special paper, signed by the Commissioners of Currency. The notes are about four and a half inches by three inches and they are legal tender for payment of any amount not exceeding £2. The New Zealand Press Asociation's special Australian correspondent says that the return from overseas of large numbers of the A.I.F. and the influx of American troops is blamed for the acute shortage of silver and copper coins. In the past year the Commonwealth mint has issued £1,500,000 worth of silver coins and £(50,000 worth of coppers. The mint is now working 60 hours a week turning out silver coins only.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 79, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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139SHILLING NOTES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 79, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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