In New Zealand, the numbers on the telephone dials were the reverse of the
Australian arrangement. WHY ! !

I was told that it was to avoid US patents; that NZ had the same dial as
the UK sounds true.

Kiwis were always Anglophiles - when Australia became a Commonwealth, NZ
refused to participate.

The Motherland tried various encouragements to cut the 'apron-strings', to
no avail. Finally, despite vehement protestations that they were BRITISH,
New Zealand was declared a 'Dominion. Still, *Aotearoa* clung on to what it
could of its British vestiges; it continued to use british currency, not
minting its own coins until the 1930s - NZ pennies did not appear until the
Second World War, a full 100 years after Waitangi ! Then, after WW2, they
again reverted to the Pound Sterling standard, and remained so until *after
*decimalisation !!

BTW, the £ *is *still on your keyboard, it's just Bill Gates & co. have
hidden it, and made it difficult to find . . .

Dean.

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