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Posted 03/08/2013   10:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Puzzler to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Found in kiloware.
Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand.



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Posted 03/09/2013   09:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mobilman44 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pretty neat! What is the timeframe? Obviously there has been a lot of fluctuation in the exchange rate over time.
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Posted 03/09/2013   10:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is no date on the card and I have no dates of the chemist's existence, so I do not know exactly.

I think the card was printed soon after the currency changed from pence to cents.

Perhaps someone knows when New Zealand changed it's currency?
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It looks in font like the mid to late 50's early to mid 60's? Just a hazarded guess.
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They were in business between 1966 and 1992, so this is then probably from their early years.

http://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/162278
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Posted 03/09/2013   12:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add heinz55 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello mobilman44,
You wrote:
"Obviously there has been a lot of fluctuation in the exchange rate over time."
Of course there was, but the above conversion table was printed IMHO when New Sealand changed over from their Pound to the dollar in July 1967 and was for all the people in the country.
One NZ pound (old) was 240 pence (as the GB pound) and then was converted into 2 NZ$, subdivided into 100 NZ pence. So no fluctuation!

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These exchange rates would apply, right up till the coins are demonitised. Like here in Australia, you can take a one shilling to the bank now and still get 10c for it. New Zealand changed to decimal in 1967.

Steve
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