Green’s Dictionary of Slang

measure n.

(N.Z. gay) money.

2010

W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: To a male prostitute money was called a measure or dinarly.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

one’s measure (n.)

the right person for the circumstances.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1902		H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).