THE OLD LADY OBJECTS
ILL the sedate officials of the Reserve Bank, I wonder, be kicking themselves because they did not think of..it first? Certainly the world premiére of The Million Pound Note, which the Queen graced at Auckland, should have given them the opportunity to do the Right Thing. Now, it’s been left to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to set the youngsters a lesson in decorum and keeping up the old traditions. For nearly a fortnight the posters in the Underground stations showed a £1,000,000 note advertising the film based on Mark ‘Twain’s short story. Then one morning the pictures of the Note-surely it deserves the capital usually reserved for diplomatic com-munications-were covered with black labels. A Bank of England spokesman explained that, as a matter of principle, the bank did not like to see currency reproduced in that way. Anything which might be thought to bring currency into disrepute was also disliked-apparent!: even a bank note has tender feelings and a reputation and must not be libelled. As an afterthought, the young gentleman from Threadneedle Street men-’ tioned that, of course, there had never been a £1,000,000 note.
J. W.
GOODWIN
(London)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 17
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196THE OLD LADY OBJECTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 17
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