22 APRIL 1938, Page 6

If one of the purposes of the visit of the

Colonial Secretary of the Bahamas to this country is to popularise those attractive islands he will do well to make it clear how the Union Jack stands there in relation to the Stars and Stripes. America, I am told, has very nearly taken charge—all very pleasantly, through a large and increasing tourist traffic, which sends prices on the islands up, and what is more gets them stated regularly in dollars and cents, though the official currency is of course sterling, as it should be in a British Crown Colony. You buy your clothes in dollars and cents, you pay your taxi in cents (and a dollar or two), you pay a dollar for the privilege of bathing in a sea swimming-pool. This seems to need changing.

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