Money (Australian TV program)

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You listening Gran? Sonny, I'm making apple pies and hmm. Oh yes, yes. I'm listening. Well, you know what? We'll starting using dollars and cents all over Australia.... Ahh get with it, you're not listening. We'll starting using dollars and cents all over Australia when? Come on, when? Psst! February 14th 1966. February 14th 1966. Right, and one dollar equals exactly? Psst! Ten schillings. One dollar equals exactlly ten schillings. Right, and two dollars equal exactly? Psst! Two dollars equal exactly one pound. Right. Oh, when will the pies be ready? Oh, ho, ho, ho. Here Sonny, cut yourself a slice of pie. Oh, you do know about dollars and cents. Sure, we'll start using dollars and cents all over Australia on February 14th 1966. One dollar equals exactly ten schillings. Two dollars equal exactly one pound. See, even a little old lady like me can get with it. Gran, what did I say? Ah, you said We'll start using dollars and cents all over Australia on February 14th 1966. One dollar equals exactally ten schillings. Two dollars equal exactly one pound. What else? Get with it. Psst! [music]. I know, For about two years after February 14th 1966 we use both kinds of money. Dollars and cents, pounds, schillings and pence. All shopping can be down with both kinds of money so dollars and cents are as good as pounds, schillings and pence. During the two years after February 14 pounds, schillings and pence gradually will go out of circulation, then we'll use dollars and cents. Two kinds of money for about two years, dollars & cents. pounds, schillings and pence, one as good as the other. The old money gradually making way for the new. Right! See, even a little old lady like me can get with it. [piano playing] That's very nice dear but you're supposed to be practicing your scales. I'm practicing for something else Gran. February 14th 1966. You're making your first public appearance? Ha! Get with it! What happens on February 14th 1966? We all start using dollars & cents and pounds, schillings & pence. Right, now if you want scales... [singing] One dollar equals exactly ten schilling, in one dollar there are one hundred cents, ten cents in one single schilling, and five cents equals six pence. Ah! Very good. You can get with it too! [singing]One dollar equals exactly ten schillings... I'd like to learn that. So would I. [singing] One dollar equals exactly ten schillings, in one dollar there are one hundred cents, ten cents in one single schilling, and five cents equals six pence. See Gran, even a little old lady can get with dollars and cents. Oh, a dozen apples please. They're forty cents a dozen, what do I do? Oh Gran, you can pay in schillings and pence or dollars and cents. One kind of money is as good as the other. That's four schillings right? Right. We need bananas too. I'll have half a dozen please. Sixteen cents please. Oh, I haven't got sixteen cents exactly. Don't worry. Give me two schillings or twenty cents and I'll give you four cents change. Always pay a little more and you'll get the right change every time. It always works Gran because one kind of money is as good as the other. Oh... we'd like a pineapple. Twenty three cents please. Now, if i give two schillings and ten cents that's thirty cents isn't it? I should get seven cents change. That's right, so here's your change. Seven cents. See you always get it right in the change. Always pay a little more and you'll get the right change every time.