Fiji's War-Time Troubles

No Pennies!

From Our Own Correspondent

0 Suva, Aug. 24.

UR Government, after running short successively of currency notes, post age stamps, and silver coins, has now run short of pennies. Inconvenience in retail shops is considerable, and the Treasury has had to issue notices urging people to keep the pennies moving The war, of course, is blamed for the shortages, but it is difficult to believe that the authorities have anticipated matters as they should have done, in view of the successive scarcities.

Perhaps the Government might con sider “farming out” the issue to some local firm. To the uninitiated eye, that studies the small intrinsic value of our coinage, it would seem that there is so much profit to the issuer that the ordinary trading company would raise both heaven and hell before it ran out of supplies!

Mr. R. w. Robson, editor and publisher of “Pacific Islands Monthly”, will leave Sydney in mid-September for Suva, and he will spend some weeks in Fiji and the Polynesian islands.