LIBARTY LOAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 6

LIBARTY LOAN

j | PAST £25,000,000

IMASTERTON SETS THE PACE ' Yesterday's investments in the Third tiberty Loan totalled-£2,064,040, making: the Dominion's figures £25,266,460 and leaving: £9,733,540 to be subscribed in the final eight days of the campaign to July ,10. s The latest figure for the Wellington postal district is given at £3,632,751, and that- for the metropolitan . area, which is-included-in the postal district, at £2.826,880, yesterday's gain being £152.994.. . S The following table for the. chief postal districts shows.the amounts subscribed up to yesterday,,the percentage of the objectives these represent, and the amount still required.

.' The Masterton sub-district has set a fine example to other areas by exceeding its object of £260.800 by £14,400, while the Waipukurau district by yesterday afternoon had subscribed its J'ull quota of £72,800. ■ ; AUTOGRAPHED BONDS. i" Everyone who buys a £ 1 or £10 bond at Liberty Corner between noon &nd 2 p.m. on Monday to Friday inclusive . next week will have a Chance of getting a bond autographed by Lieut-General Freyberg. • The Wellington committee has five each of these autographed bonds in the two denominatioiis. It being a people's loan, the committee decided last night against auctioning the bonds, as this would not give people of small means a chance. Instead,'one each of the £1 and £10 autographed bonds will be placed in the l-espective bundles to be sold at Liberty Corner in the lunch - periods next week, Saturday excluded. Who gets them"will be a matter of chance. Arrangements are being made for the lucky ones to retain the bonds on redemption. .' Larger additional investments include £25,000 by the D.I.C. and £10,000 by the Alliance Assurance Co., Ltd.. ;

* The eighteen.loan objectives ' were hot fixed arbitrarily without regard to the. resources and obligations of--the areas . concerned, states the National War Loan Committee. There has been the experience of. two previous war loans and the sustained effort in.connection with national • war savings as guides to what is reasonably possible. The district target for the £35,000,000 loan is approximately eight times the amount* raised annually through the national savings scheme,- and the total of: these targets equals £35,000,000. • ; The Petone Borough Council has subscribed .£IOOO and the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board £650 hr the loan. The U.S. Marine Corps demonstrations at Lower' Hutt and Petone last evening and this morning prOvedgreat attractions, and the efforts 'Of members: of the corps to act-, as sellers of bonds were a feature of the occasion. . ...

: liaised. . Percent- Required. ■ £ age. £ Nelson ........ •172,200 SO 77,710 Wellington .....3,1)32,751 S3 748,249 Blenheim 210,171 79 61,829 Auckland > 5,05(1,817 75 1,658,183 Dunediu 1,802,050 73 629,350 luvercargill .. 1)10,805 70 284,195 Gisborue ; 344,452 69 .101,548 Xnpler.. 752.44G 03 448,554 Tiraaru ........ 451,954 50 362,040 Wangniiul ' 543,632 55 437,368 Now Plymouth '. . 003,322 55 506,678 Palmerstou N. ..' 787,567 55 657,433 CHristehurcil ■ • ..:2,080,765 50 .2,028,235 Pamaru .. :132,323 44 171,677 Greymouth . ■..• 191,670 41 273,324 Thames 316,004 SS • 542,996 Westpott T -....'.. 54,392 S7 91,008 Hamilton .:.... 746,439 ?,G ■ 1,333,561 ■ Sub-districts' percentages:—Mastcfton, 116; Hastings, 67; Hawera, 56; Whangarei, 51; Gore, 51; Ashburton. 37.