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10 Cents 4 NZ General Hospital Canteen
| Issuer | 4 NZ General Hospital Canteen |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff cardboard voucher with black letterpress text. The denomination '10 cents' is printed in large bold type at centre, with the issuing authority abbreviated across the top and a dotted signature line bearing a handwritten Canteen Officer signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 4 NZ Gen Hosp Canteen Only 10 cents Canteen Officer |
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New Zealand military hospitals operating in the Middle East and Italy during the Second World War ran canteen systems using locally produced scrip to keep soldiers from spending hard currency off-base. This 10-cent denomination is unusual — New Zealand's domestic currency ran in pounds, shillings, and pence until 1967, so the decimal denomination points to a practical accommodation for the theatre of operations rather than any alignment with official monetary policy.
These canteen tokens were produced in small quantities, used hard, and rarely survived demobilization.