UNWANTED MILLIONS
Millions of Treasury notes which never reached a pocket or found temporary refuge in a cash register were recently destroyed by order of the Government. They were small change notes for 5s and 2s 6d, intended for. use during the war in the event of an invasion. A Treasury official said: “There was always a risk at the time that we were preparing against invasion, that some part of the country might be cut off and become short of small money. So these notes were printed, boundled up, and distributed to the various regions. There they were hidden, They were to be used only in emergency.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 3
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108UNWANTED MILLIONS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 3
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