NEW ZEALAND NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NOTES

MR SAVAGE CRITICISES COMPLAINTS. QUESTIONS OF ACCEPTANCE IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Complaints by New Zealanders returning from Australia that New Zealand banknotes were not acceptable in Sydney were criticised by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in an interview last evening. He said that no intelligent; person would go out of the Dominion and expect New Zealand banknotes to be circulating in an overseas country. ‘Who ever saw Australian notes or those of any other overseas country circulating in New Zealand,” asked Mr Savagq. “These statements are made by New Zealanders trying to damn their country because Labour is in power. No intelligent person would go to Australia with a pocket full of New Zealand banknotes and expect them to be accepted. Of course, they won’t be accepted, for New Zealand currency does not circulate in Australia, and it is difficult to imagine that anyone should ask that they be accepted. I should think that anyone finding it necessary to visit Australia would take the proper course and avail themselves of the facilities offered by the New Zealand and Australian banking systems. While these people are trying to damn the Government, trade in their own country is booming.”