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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 12

Threepences

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

Fast Work With

SUVA, July 5.

THE two banks in Fiji (New Zealand arid New South Wales) have put piore than £l,OOO worth of the new threepenny pieces into circulation. (See article elsewhere.) Only one misfortune has been reported, unofficially: Enterprising Indians in Suva bought up the coins (until the banks wakened to it) and in some cases toured remote places which knew nothing about the new threepenny bits in an endeavour c- e n tbpm as sovereigns to both Indians and Fijians.