VICTORY LOAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 6

VICTORY LOAN

£8,000,000 REQUIRED

SUPREME EFFORT' NEEDED

♦iA oU,K?£,v effort wiu fee needed if the £40,000,000 Victory Loan is. to be filled by tomorrow night. The latest K r% tli°s e, uJP *© last night, showed that the total invested, with the subStan%o ll o£, t, SL £3,295,022 yesterday. ¥F*£%A& 1l* 5b hich left a sum °f £7,788,249 to be found during today and tomorrow. The organisers are determined to get the remaining millions safely in the bag by the hour the loan closes, and are redoubling their appeals to all those investors who have so far held off.

Wellington district has £3,271,800 in hand, or 70 per cent, of its objective, leaving £1,402,000 to get in the two days. The investments yesterday totalled £243,700. Wellington will have to look busy. , ' . ,

Southland is the only district so far to complete its quota, which • was £1,531,000. The positions of the other districts are as follows:—Auckland, 91; Taranaki, 79; Gisborne-East Coast, 78; Otago, Marlborough, North Otago, each 76; Northland, Manawatu, each 71; Wellington, Nelson, each 70; Wanganui, 67; Buller, Westland, each 66; Hawke's Bay, South Canterbury, each 64; Waikato-King Country, Thames-Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Wairar,apa, each 60.

Advice was received from Wanganui last night that the Aotea District Maori Land Board was investing £19,950 in the loan, on behalf of the Maoris of the board's district. This brings the total amount subscribed by these Maoris in all war loans to £77,452. GENERAL FREYBERG'S ACTION. Lieutenant-General B. C. Freyberg, in command of the New Zealand Division in the Middle East, has made a personal subscription of £500. A message received by the. Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) contains this intimation, and also advice that the general expects to be back with his division soon. The message states: "Thank you for your good wishes. I am making excellent progress. The wound; is healed ,and. I am about again, and I expect to be back with the division in 10 days. I have just read that the Victory Loan wiM. close in a few days. Realising the importance of this I loan at the present stage in the war, I am sending you £500 to help, and at the same time wish you every success in achieving-your full amount." General Freyberg was recently injured in an air crash in Italy. During his absence the division is commanded by Brigadier C. E. Weir, who was given the temporary rank of major-general. OTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS. Additional subscriptions' include one of £40.000 from the Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand.

The : staff of the Ministry of Supply have subscribed £4693 in the loan to date, and there is still more to come in. ■ ■ . , ■•

Women's organisations manning street booths continue to do splendid work, and last night were almost half-way towards their objective of £10,000 in bond sales. . i

Wright, Stephenson, Ltd., Abraham and Williams. Ltd.. and subsidiary companies, who have already contributed £24.500, invested £10,000 more yesterday.. . ' ( ; . In a drive lasting only two weeks. £11,000 has been raised by the staff of the Ford Motor Company of New Zealand. Ltd. Fifty-five per cent, of the. staff have participated. The company itself has invested £20,000 in the loan, making a total of £31,000 for company and employees. Investments in the loan by officers of the Post and Telegraph Department stationed in Wellington amount to £4000. In addition, investments on behalf of radio operators stationed in the Pacific amount to £ 1260, which represents deposits to national war saving's, TRADES COUNCIL CAMPAIGN. Investments in stock by the trades unions m the Wellington area now total £10,215. The New Zealand Workers' union recently contributed £2000 comprising £400 each from the following branches:—Dunedin, Canterbury, Wellington, Gisborne, and Auckland. Unions with smaller memberships and many lower-paid women workers have also played their part. The caretakers' and cleaners' organisation recently, invested £50, and the Tobacco Workers' Union £100. The - bond-selling drive among the workers continues to yield good results. The employees of the Wellington branch of the Public Works DeS?^6ll^ set, themselves a target of £1000, of which,over £700 was in hand yesterday, and the workers at the Hutt shops doubled this objective and contributed over £400 of the in- . creased amount at their staff meeting yesterday. The staff of Dominion Dyers Petone, purchased £183 in Victory Brads, and the : employees of Combined Distributors, a small staff with a large number of women, took £368 Very good efforts are still being made by young women in various £ othi n£ trade factories, for example, the staff of 18 at Leo Blake, Ltd., contributed £43, 15 workers at Thomas Heaney, Ltd., subscribed £51, the staff of Sharland and Co. £91, and 20 office workers' at Twentieth Century-Fox

The staff of C. Smith, Ltd., have purchased^£sl in Bonds while increases to National Savings total £70, making the combined contribution

Thejstaff of Bradford Tailoring Co, Ltd., have contributed £ 227 ~by way of new National Savings accounts and increased deposits. ylor Bros-' staff have contributed £450 by way. of new National Savings' accounts and increased deposits The_ staff of the Land and Income lax Department who made such a fine contribution to the last Loan have p?cl n made -^a magnificent effort: Cash and written promises, £1637 Bsamounts already deducted for National Sayings,.£24oo; total, £4037 8s f <*n VTOM*% SS?eP°r} from Base Records fc^i'lO^ Staff contributi-s to

Ninety-two employees of the Golden s™™ e?u SI 0' have Purchased £1874 worth of Bonds. The company, m addition to investing £5000 has purchased £1874 in Bonds being trW V£ basis of the staff contributions, thus making the total £8748 nt fr°m the company and staff

IaIS? "ptiloss-n2S Previously acknowledged include: The National Mutual Life Assn. of Australasia, Ltd (WelBngw^qUOta^^l22'ooo)' £3500007 J. ?'^. £fjf + ai^ Company (N.Z.), Ltd., £500; . Scott Timber and Hardware Company, Ltd., £1000; N.Z. Plate Glass Insurance Company, £200; Royal Exchange Assurance, £5000;. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., £1000; Briscoe E W Mills and Company, Ltd., £5000; Boots the Chemists (NZ) Ltd |2000; Combined Distributors, . Ltd!! nmj£ncn A of £ he Atlantic Union Oil Co., £1475; A. S. Patterson and Company, an additional £2500; Wellington Federal Club, an additional £ lift Grand Central Buildings, Hotel St George £3000; F. M. Drewitt, £500: Fw 1?,-- D? ewitt ' £500' Winstones, Ltd (Wellington quota, £2000), £io,OOOFrancis Holmes, Ltd., £500; the Ad'jSn nnnati»" 'of Ol _ Western Samoa, £50,000; River Shingle and Sand £500; .Imperial Chemical Industries! N.Z., Ltd., £4000; Imperial Chemica Industries of NZ. and Australia, Ltd., Pension Fund, £2500; Dyes and Chemil cals, Ltd £1000; C. and A Odlin a™d Co. have taken up £921 from 33 sub£so? rS; FlbrOUS. Plaster Company, TOMORROW'S RALLY. Tomorrow will be the final day of New Zealand's £40,000,000 War Loan and the last opportunity the public of Wellington will have of spending its lunch-hour at a Victory rally The War Loan Committee hopes that the public will make tomorrow a bumper bond sales day at Victory Corner It asks everyone who . will be in town to be present at the final Victory Rally and to bring with them a sum of money I which will enable them to buy bonds from the girls- in the crowd. There will be a fine programme arranged Mr. Tony Wood's Concert Party will appear, with Miss Ena Rapley Mr Frank Crowther, Mr. Bill McKeon and Sid. Allwright. The Trentham Military Band will also be on the platform.