#21077 - Cheque
- Resource IDLocation
- 21077Photograph 5242
- Title/subtitle
- Cheque
- Picture
- Format
- Photograph
- Publisher
- 19 June 1947
- Physical description
- Black & white photograph; 24cm x 11cm
- Summary
- A cheque for 20 million pounds paid to His Majesty's Treasury signed by John Beasley, High Commissioner and Mr S. Macfarlane, Secretary of Commonwealth Treasury. In 2013 terms this is about $2bn.
- Availability
- Not for loan.
- Notes
- The cheque represented 3 pounds, 0 shillings and 6 pence from every man ,woman and child in Australia. By the end of 1949 Australia had given the British 45 million pounds sterling as gifts. See The Western Australian 18 Nov 1949, page 3.
