“VERY LIKE ROBBERY”
AUSTRALIAN NOTES CASHED AT BIG DISCOUNT NEW ZEALANDER’S PLIGHT LONDON, April 11. “Exchange was very like robbery in this case,” Mr. Thomas Unsworth, cxMavor of St. Kilda, Melbourne, said here recently. Among the passengers on the Baradine, he said, was a disabled British soldier, who was returning after relinquishing a small New Zealand farm. Owing to the recurrence of war injuries, he lost the use of both legs. During the voyage he was entirely destitute, and Mr. Unsworth organised a “whip-round,” raising £29 for him, but because it was all in Australian notes the soldier was penniless on his arrival at Plymouth, where he had to be carried ashore, and was unable to pay for a conveyance. Through the intervention of Australia House, Mr. Unsworth has just succeeded in cashing the Australian notes at 18s each.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 11
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