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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1956Vol. XXVI, No.8

New Fiji £1 Note Issue

p. 117 · Read in the full issue

NEW £FI notes, which bear the portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, were made available through the local banks in Fiji on February 4.

The new notes are smaller in size and stronger in texture than the previous ones. New notes in other denominations are to be issued la er Attractive notes to the value of Id were issued in Fiji during World

War 11, due to an acute shortage of the well known Fiji Id “washer.”

It would be interesting to know what these Id notes are worth to-day—as collectors’ pieces. !i Miss Betty Banff, a triple certifi cated from Queensland, has volunteered for three years nursing service with the Anglican Mission in Papua.