NEW ZEALAND MONEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND MONEY

EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN PASSENGERS BANK MANAGERS’ ADVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Three of the Australian passengers on the Strathallan spent the greater part of this morning in an inspection of the Wellington shops at which they could, in their own words, get rid of the New Zealand money which they had accumulated since their arrival in Auckland on Friday. As one of the trio, Mr. J. A. Kelly, of Melbourne, put it: “My bank manager instructed me on no account to bring New Zealand money back to Victoria. ‘We won’t accept it,’ he told me. ‘Don’t come back even with five shillings, or it will be your own look-out.’ ” Mr Kelly remarked -in an interview that his companions. Messrs J. B. Langridge and T. J. Wilcox had been given the same advice by their respective bank managers. None of them had been able to change their New Zealand currency on the Strathallan, but the reason might'be the fact that it was the company’s last cruise this season to New Zealand. They had no difficulty at all in exchanging Australian notes in Nev/ Zealand and as a result had accumulated a fairly substantial amount of New Zealand money, and since they were leaving for Sydney tonight they proposed to empty their pockets of it to-day.