The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

Exchange Rates

p. 146 · Read in the full issue

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji] basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling] £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londona B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

Samoa.— Through Bank Of Nz.

Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa!

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa-] London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-.

Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £lll3 S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Madang) and BANK OF NSW (Pori Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £loo^

Bsl—Commonwealth Bank (Brand

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Aus tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups in French Union, are used in New Gale-; donia. New Hebrides, and Pr, Oceania.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 175 Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $.