The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 3

Exchange Rates

p. 162 · Read in the full issue

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia i basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; ;l £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO II B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basa.

NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OD Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £Ai24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO Londortc £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Sam. basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £ll Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa; B.a S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.'—Commonwealth

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Madang), BANK OF NSW (brancHo Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul; Wau) and ANZ BANK (Port MVT quote exchange rate Australia-Papu 10/- per £lOO.

Bsi.—Commonwealth Bank

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

FR. PACIFIC COLONlES.—Paciflcax most valuable of the three in French Union, are used In Neve donla, New Hebrides, and Fr. O FRENCH BANK (Comptoir M D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney y: (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Auu Pac. fr, to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to UJ