#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, Australia's High Commissioner in London, and Mr S. Macfarlane, Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. It was Australia's contribution to Britain for its war effort in the Pacific. In 2013 terms this is about $2bn.
- Availability
- Not for loan.
- Notes
- The cheque represented 3 pounds 6 pence for 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.
