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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 38, 12 January 1943, Page 6

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RATIONING AT BANKS

So acute has the shortage of coins, particularly pennies and threepenny pieces, become that strict rationing of metallic currency supplied to clients lias been undertaken by the trading banks of New Zealand,

Discussing the position a bank official said that there was an in-< creasing demand for all kinds of coins Avhich created a vexatious problem for the banks.

In regard to the shortage, of pennies, and Ihreepennj'-picccs businessmen can give no definite answer as to why these coins should be so scarce, but several factors appear to have contributed to the position. The hotels have found that the fixing of the price of beer at 7d a handle makes the giving of change a difficult}-. Difficulties arc created also by the sale of chocolate bars formerly priced at (3d and Is, but now with an extra penny added to tiie cost. Wherever odd amounts of change arc required the shortage of small denomination coins asserts itself.

It is considered that monc3 r -boxcs in many homes must be choked with badly-needed coinage, and that perhaps Christmas will see the. release of some of it. The acquisition by American servicemen of the coins as souvenirs is reported, but it is actually illegal to ship coin out of the Dominion.

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British Commission of the Churches is being asked to suggest such a visitor. The aim of these Christian Order Weeks will be to spread by intensive campaigning, the conviction that the Christian way of life • has a challenge to every section of the community—'that it affects not only the church but also the home, the office, the factory, the school, the city, and the nation. Commission on Social Problems The work of the study groups which has been so promising this year will figure largely in the activities for 194.3, and. it has been decided to invite, the Rev. J. D. Salmond to be the chairman of a sub-summit tee situated in Welling-1 ton which will plan and supervise j group study. Another avenue for j special will be the planning I of commissions on the relation of the Christian message to such subjects as politics, economics, and the social life of New Zealand. For instance, the Youth Sub-Committee of the Campaign lias recommended that a commission be set up to investigate and report upon moral trends among the youth of the country. Bt has been decided that, as a preliminary, there shall be one commissicn (divided into suitable subsections for special research, but coordinated by a central group) which will collect data and present reports to a representative conference. This conference will be responsible for considering the work of the commission and publishing findings.

The presence of so many men and women in the armed forces makes another special demand upon the Campaign, and for 19-JM it lias been decided tlrjr a Military Camps subcommittee' of the Executive will be appointed, its function being to provide every assistance possible to

chaplains and other camp workers. Already in many camps study groups are in operation, and a survey has revealed that the men In the forces are. showing about as much interest in the campaign as the people outside. At the moment, perhaps, it docs not go much beyond interest: the mass of the population knows that a Campaign for Christian Order is going on, but probably does not as yet know much beyond that, and there, is still a good deal of scepticism about the whole thing. The organisers and participants in the campaign are well aware that this scepticism exists and that it is a challenge to them, but at least they prefer scepticism to indifference. And in spite of some mistakes, they believe 'that they have in the past year laid down a foundation which will enable the Campaign for Chris tian Order to meet the challenge in 10-13.