Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1924, Page 2

.Many people who Imv handled worn ;:11<I lull: ilatcil coins li;ty<* no douht ’ often wondered what 1!»u:dlv hc- ' 11 1 1;<■ - n|' them Isays the Dunedin "Still" . Tile IlliltU'l' 111 tlleir 11l ' | lie II ! is iieine; de;di with ;il present liy nil the !-•;111ki in New Zealand, uliieli are ciilleei inti -He'll coins to lent aril them to the ijnvni .Mill', in hillland, Irnni \v hi eh ail the money comes to New /.eahunl. It is not tteiicrally hmr.vn that the hanks have hecn ntakino the collection lor the pa.t tun months, and that th.e privilege will he n]ien only till the end i i the present inontli. The nictnhers ol the public who ih'-irc to net rid ot' unrn nr mitt date,! coins have, therefore, only about another week to avail themselves nf this chance. The hank otlicials who supplied this information stated that coins with holes ihtolltili them would he accepted provided it was apparent they had not Icen maliciously mutilated, lie also pointed out that no coins which had Ih'cii minted in l!‘t!o or later Would he ex'ha titled hv the hanks. These should not he worn to such an extent yet that they required replacing. There was al'o tic fact that silver coins of those cents were affected hv the war .-hortaue of that metal, other alloys heint; ti-ed to make up tlie deficiency, and consequently they were not of the same value as the previous mintatie. It is interesting to note that it is about twenty years since a similar withdrawal was made hv the hanks