§ 71. Mr. R. Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can now give details of the new decimal currency which it is proposed to introduce in the West Indies; what denominations of coins will be issued; in what 186W Colonies it will be used; and when it will be introduced.
§ Mr. J. GriffithsThe new coins which are to be issued by the newly constituted Currency Board in the West Indies will consist of 50, 20, 10 and 5 cent pieces made of cupro-nickel in the proportion of 75 per cent. copper and 25 per cent. nickel; and of one-cent and half-cent pieces of bronze. New notes will also be issued, in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 100 dollars. The Territories in which the new coinage will be issued are those which have agreed to adopt a unified currency, namely, Trinidad, British Guiana, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. No date has yet been fixed for its introduction.