WAR LOAN CERTIFICATES
HOW THEY ABE ALLOTTED.
The following figures .give the amounts of War. Loan Certificates sold throughout each of the seventeen postal districts up to and- including the 15th inst., together with the. total for the Dominion,' have. been . handed to a representative of the “Post” by the Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Acting Minister of Piuance 1 Auckland ... ... £152,878 4 0 Blenheim * 29,025 8 0 Christchurch ... 168,109 12 0 Dunedin ". 167,341 12 0 Gisborne ... ... 24.564 0 0 Greyrnouth ... ... 18,567 40 1 Hokitika ... .... 8,896 0 0 Invercargill ... ... 10,115 12 0 Napier ... ... 70,000 16 fl Nelson ... ... New Plymouth- ... 55,040 16 0 Oamaru* 17.013 8 0 Thames. ... ■ ’... , ... 17,728 Timaru ... ... 44,547 4 0 Wanganui ...’ ... 56,341 12 -0 Wellington. 299,823 10 0 Westport ... ••• 12,300 16 0 Total: £1,251,437 18 0. i ‘‘The last return published,” stated Mr Myers, “showed that up to and including 23rd January last the total amount of certificates sold throughout New Zealand was £1,214,380, IP will be seen, therefore, that since that date £37,057 worth of certificates have been sold. This represents an average weekly sale of approximately £.l 0f,500, and. must be considered very satisfactory.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1917, Page 8
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187WAR LOAN CERTIFICATES Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1917, Page 8
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