... the doorman at One was telling new arrivals: “ Better come back next year, if %gu don’t want to wait.” e stampede for the new currency attracted all generations. Perhaps the youngest customer was two-year-old ...

... convenient for the bur ing firms to get all their bil in decimal form from a certain date, instead of 2 mixture of old and new currency. The board also concede that where there is a close association hetween the companies, or the bulk of sales go to ome customer ...

... of Muscat and Oman has decided to introduce a new currency into his country to replace the Gulf Rupee. I am pleased to tell you that His Highness has done us the honour of asking us to manage the new currency. This we, naturally, are very glad to do and ...

... which did not share the board’s view. ADAPTATION Mr Jenkins explained that the duration of the changeover period to the new currency was a point on which a decision would have to be made later. It could not be finally settled until the Governmgent saw ...

... ovu‘il coinversti:: tables on e wall give w guidance. Initial doubts on how this would work when you have both old and new currency in your purse were quickly dispelled. For a start it is only our copper coins that will be obsolete, our present silver ...

... distribution of leaflets to local authority offices, libraries and so on. Social workers are being encouraged tb explain the new currency to old people. From December 29, the board will spend more than £1 million in using “every means of publwltz' we can.” ...

... DECIMAL SHOP AT MONTROSE A decimal shop aimed at helping traders and the shopping public with transactions in the new currency, ' was opened by the Earl of Dalhousie at Montrose yesterday. It is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce and a dozen firms ...

... departments will change to D-? working on D-day. Banks: From ay all documents, including cheques, will have to be written in new currency. Banks will be closed for public business from February 11 to February 14. Post Office: All transactions In £p from D-day ...

... next year—Decimal Day—and on that day statements for each of the bureau’s 46,000 account holders will be available in the new currency. Announcing this yesterday the Post Office said staff at the bureau would have more time to give personal attention to ...

... of new pennies and the 10s as a basis instead of the pound, but the conservative decision to make the terminology of the new currency like that of the old makes it harder to distinguish them. A bright catechism to be issued by the DCB explains the conversion ...

... charts and pamphlets are due to be delivered to “gufiully every home in Bri as part of the Government’s * teachin ” on the new currency. 2 If there was a strike, Mr Tom Jackson, general secretary of the Union of Post Post Office Workers, sald a large percentage ...

... Secretary, said few of the union volunteers had been fully trained in the new system. If the Post Office insisted on using the new currency, the union would want :10l know who ::a‘ould meet any In addition mdn& decimal eh:cs”r' the Post Office also in uce -new ...