VICTORY LOAN

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24369, 22 September 1944, Page 6

VICTORY LOAN

DISTRICT TOTAL NOW £1,217,927

The Canterbury district total In- the Victory Loan is £1,217,927, which is Still far short of the quota of £4,146,000. The sum of £40,426 was subscribed yesterday, but subscriptions from larger investors are urgently required if Canterbury is to fill its quota. Subscriptions to Wednesday evening, with area quotas in parenthesis, were as follows: —Christchurch, £926.897 (£3,170,090); Akaroa, £8740 (£25.412): Amberley, £4630 ( £21,536); Ashburton County, £64,484 (£383,170); Cheviot. £11.561 (£23,686); Culverden, £6848 (£12,768); Cust, £1965 (£6371); Barfield. £10,143 (£22,563); Dunsandel, £2139 (£10,193); Duvauchelle, £lsOl (£3896); Hanmer Springs, £3562 (£10,344); Hawarden, £5524 (£24,536); Hororata, £6745 (£14,741); Kaiapoi, £BOO2 (£58,707); Kaikoura, £10.550 (£38.745); Kirwee, £1285 (£4000); Leeston-Southbridge, £15,245 (£49,745); Lincoln, '£4313 (£9618): Little River. £7502 (£14.515); Lyttelton. £15,767 (£58,070); Oxford, £7116 (£26,004); Rangiora, £19,943 (£101.000): Sefton, £1693 (£7644); Sheffield. £2968 (£10,617); Tai Tapu, £935 (£6640); Waiau, £9096 (£13,617); Waikari. £11,532 (£17,768). Recent investments include the following:—C. E. Good, £4000; Sargood, Son, and Ewen (part Dominion contribution), £2000; Woolworths (N.Zj, Ltd., (part Dominion contribution), £3250; Automobile Association (Canterbury), £500; Cooper, Wilkes, and Brookes, Ltd., £500; Stacey and Hawker, Ltd.. £2000; George H. M. Walton, £1200; A. H. Turnbull and Company, Ltd., £1000; George Henry and Company. Ltd., £500; Drayton, Jones, Ltd., £500; W. L. King. £1000; Hardie and Thomson. Ltd., £500; Canterbury Saleyards Company, Ltd., £SOO.

Because of unforeseen circumstances the Victory Loan Committee is unable to arrange for Miss Gloria Lyons to be brought to Cathedral square to see the Warhawk fighter named after her. Entertainment will be provided in tile Square to-day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Wigram Air Force station will be open to the public to-morrow afternoon, when Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel will give various displays. No cameras can be taken inside the gates. Cars containing disabled soldiers or invalids will be allowed inside the gates, and provision will be made for other vehicles outside the aerodrome.

DOMINION TOTAL £15,282,174

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 21. The amount subscribed to the Victory .Loan to-day was £730,356,- making the total to date £15,282,174. - Objective percentages obtained to date are: Southland district, 58 per cent.; Auckland, 55; Otago, 45; Taranaki and Marlborough, 44; GisborneEast Coast, 41; North Otago and Wanganui. 37; Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay, 35; North, Auckland, 34; Wellington and Nelson, 33; Waikftto-King Country, Wairargpa, South Canterbury, and Canterbury, 29; Buller, 28; Westland, 1 27; Thames-Bay of Plenty, 26.

PART OF FEDERATION

OF LABOUR

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT

IPA.I. . WELLINGTON. Sept. 21. “The average working .class New Zealander is determined to make his share in the Victory Loan an all time record for this type of investor,” said the Hon.'A. McLagan. Minister. of National Service, who spoke to-night on the loan campaign, not as a Minister of the Crown, but as president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. This organisation, he said, had set itself a target of £1,900,000. The response had already been - remarkable, and there was every prospect of that figure being reached within tile allotted time. C Mr McLagan described thft.orgamflation of the loan effort afijt&jgl trgofi unionists, which would . djxgblfi.'SHfc maximum number of working people to contribute. There had been some commendable examples, such as the offer •of a prize by one firm which divided its staff into lour, and was.giving a prize "to the section showing the best results. The total raised amounted to £lO a head and, added Mr McLagan, i one could readily imagine that if every New Zealander managed to subscribe £lO to the loan the.aggregate of.these sums, plus the investments made by large institutions, would ensure a total far in excess of the £40,000,000 tar|et. Another Wellington firm nominated £IOOO as thevobjective, but its 70, or 80 employees had already subscribed £1250, and one member-of the • staff, a returned soldier, had invested the whole of his deferred pay, amounting t0 Mr McLagan suggested that there was good evidence that the greatest possible effort was being made by the gmall investors to ensure that their responsibilities to tile Victory Loan were fully discharged, and that the example set by some brgartisations and individuals should inspire those who had been holding back to get busy now.

MINISTER ASKED TO VISIT COAST

HELP SOUGHT FOR VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN From Our Own Reporter

GREYMOUTH, September 21. The Westland District War Loan Committee has sent a .telegram, to the Hon; J. O’Brien, member of Parliament for Westland, asking him to come down from Wellington ■ for the remainder of the Victory Loan period in order to give personal support in the campaign. The telegram-was as follows: - , . “The War Loan Committee respectfully requests that you make yourself available, personally, in this district to-assist for the remaining period of this vital Victory Loan campaign. . A large band of willing workers here is not meeting with adequate public response. and the committee'feels, your presence throughout the district as a Cabinet Minister would, emphasise the importance of the loan campaign.” • It was also suggested in several quarters that this plan might well be adopted throughout the whole Dominion. -