§ Mr. Radfordasked the Chanceller of the Exchequer whether he is prepared to examine a proposal to transfer a large tonnage of copper from the existing coinage to munitions and, whilst retaining a sufficient number of pennies in circulation for use in slot machines, to issue a much smaller and lighter new coin representing a tenth of the unaltered 1s. for ordinary hand-to-hand trading?
§ Sir K. WoodThis proposal has already been examined and found to be impracticable.