AUSTRALIA'S VICTORY LOAN
TOTAL NOT QUITE REACHED (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent! (Rec. 12.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. The closing of Australia's £150,000.000 first Victory loan has been extended from last night until Friday night. Yesterday there was a shortage of £10,000,000 required to be made up, but the latest reports indicate that tlie loan is going well despite earlier anxiety. With the close of the first Victory loan Australia will have contributed £700,000,000 to loans for the present war. The first loan, for £20,000,000. was filled in three days. Three-quar-ters of the total loan money has been raised in the past 18 months. No Australian loan has cost more than 5s each £IOO compared with £1 each £IOO in some Allied countries. In the first World War Australian loans totalled only £180,000,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 25171, 10 May 1944, Page 3
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