The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1955Vol. XXV, No. 6

Exchange Rates

p. 160 · Read in the full issue

Fiji —Through Bank Of Nsw,

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on basis £lOO Fiji; Buying. £ Al l l/2/6; Se. £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Lor B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

Samoa. —Through Bank Of Nz.

tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sa

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £Ai24/10/9. Sa

London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO S £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO b’. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng. —Commonwealth B

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Ka\ Madang). BANK OF NSW (branches Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Mai Samarai; agency: Wau) and ANZ 1 (Port Moresby) quote exchange Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO

Bsl—Commonwealth Bank Ibi

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

FB PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fi most valuable of the three franc g in French Union, are used in New donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oce FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Nai D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney qi Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.