"Practice” Money
(A’cw Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, June 10. A Wellington plastics company had been contracted by the Decimal Currency Board to manufacture 500,000 “practice” decimal coins, the chairman of the board (Mr S. L. Moses) said today. The board had also given authority for machine companies to lease premises for “conversion centres” in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, he said. Mr Moses, reporting on the fortnightly board meeting, said staff would be recruited overseas to
supervise machine conversion.
The “practice” coins would be released in about six weeks for training school pupils, shop assistants, and bank tellers.
Notes, the same size and colour as those which would be used when decimal currency was introduced, would be printed by the Government Printing Office.
The coins and notes would not have designs on them, but would carry the denominations they represented.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 18
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139"Practice” Money Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 18
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