British Notes in America.
"The less said about my bank bal"ance the better. I have joined the great majority. Any hopes I may have had of remaining solvent were ' dissipated when I reached San Frani cisco," said Mr. J. W. Mawson, Director of Town Planning, by way of preface to an address at Christchurch. "When in San Francisco I found that all I could get was 8 s in the £1 for a Bank of England note," he said. "On a train from New York a five-pound note would not buy an egg, so I secured an "international loan" from the train conductor."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 142, 8 February 1932, Page 6
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