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SILVER & COPPER COINS AUSTRALIA GETS SUPPLY FROM UNITED STATES. ALSO HELPING NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—(Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. At least a million pounds’ worth of Australian silver coins have been minted in the United States and sent to Australia. This is the first time any British country has had its coinage riiade by a foreign country. Australian copper coins are being made in India: The Federal Treasurer (Mr Chifley) said the American order had to be placed because the Australian mints could not cope with the demand for silver coins. Australia was helping to relieve the New Zealand silver coin shortage, Mr Chifley added. Efforts were also being made to send copper coins to some of the Pacific islands, where coins were so .scarce that penny notes were being printed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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138SERIOUS SHORTAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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