TALKING ABOUT EXCHANGES.

Shannon News, 7 October 1924, Page 2

TALKING ABOUT EXCHANGES.

FEILDING VISITOR’S STORY. Mr Hector de Burgh Sherrill, of Melbourne, who is visiting relatives in FeUding, has/had an experience in the majtter )of the rates, of exchange that will brighten hi 6 reminiscences When he returns to the other < side of Tasman Sea. When he landed in Wellington he found that he had in hi? wallet five one-pounid notes that were for circulation in the Commonwealth only. When he presented the first note over here he was informed .that there was 6d exchange on it. “That’s all right/’ he replied; Travelling north, he presented the second note.' “Eightpence of this for exchange,” he was told. That’s all right.” The third note,, presented a little farther north, was taxed 10d. And the visitor wondered, v , . When the fourth was presented m yet smother town, the rate of exchange had "gone 'bp to a shilling! Then the Australian pondered. But when, on huying a railway ticket up Wanganui way, the clerk made the demand Of . Is And a twopenny stamp—-well, then the explosion happened. / . Curiosity then, led the tourist to seek a solution at bank in Wanganui,. where he was informed that all the expenditure needled, on passing each note was a twopenny stamp!— Star..