DIZZINESS OF FINANCE.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 13, 10 January 1924, Page 4

DIZZINESS OF FINANCE.

SOME AMUSING SIDELIGHTS. A Christchurch business man who has been visiting Europe, in a letter to a Christchurch friend, gives some interesting and amusing* sidelights on the dizziness of finance in Germany. His letter is dated Berlin, September 5, and is as follows: “ I have been a fortnight in Berlin, and it is a lovely place. Life is not slow here. There is a tension, and things are very interesting. Anomalies exist everywhere, and one does not know what difference an hour will bring-. For all that I am thoroughly enjoying* mjself. 1 have millions and millions, so I am sending you a couple of notes —they represent about £50,000 (before the war). It is like being* with ‘ Alice in Wonderland/ Here 1 buy something* in the morning costing, say, 9d; in the afternoon it is 12s 6d, and so on. 1 went to the Wannsee and there must have been 200 motor boats and yachts on it. The people here dress exteremely well. I have seen only one person badly clothed. The food is first-class, and living is dear or cheap, according to the exchange and the anomalies. Tt costs 200,000 marks to post this letter, and I paid 4,700,000 marks for meals, including champagne, for two. That sum when 1 arrived meant. £2 10s. To-day it is 15s or so. 1 go away 50 miles and pay 4,000,000 marks for a bed. breakfast and supper of partridge—that is Is Od the lot. Yet the Berlin hostels try to keep to the London prices if they can. Enclosed are 2,000,000 marks to go and have n good time.” -vhe; T believe a man should give his wife plenty of rope.” He: “That's wnat T did with mine—and she skipped.