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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TonyC on July 10, 2012, 05:35:10 PM

Title: From the useless information department
Post by: TonyC on July 10, 2012, 05:35:10 PM

For those with longer memories.......... it is the 45th birthday of decimal currency today. :)

Title: Re: From the useless information department
Post by: TokWW on July 11, 2012, 11:37:07 AM

LOL!  When did we go metric measurements - was that 1965?

Title: Re: From the useless information department
Post by: gabba on July 11, 2012, 05:43:57 PM

67 . I'm a decimal baby but only just

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Title: Re: From the useless information department
Post by: intrepid on July 11, 2012, 07:37:26 PM

I actually remember that!

Title: Re: From the useless information department
Post by: OhauitiWeather on July 11, 2012, 07:48:14 PM

Yes remember it well, 10th July 1967, I was in the Third form (year 9 for you younguns) at Tauranga Boys College.  Decimal conversion was the brainchild of one Robert Muldoon who was the "Young Turk" Finance Minister in the then National Government.

Unfortunately 10th July is also the anniversary of my fathers death 29 years ago this year.