THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
THE FINAL FIGURES.
WELLINGTON, July 15
“The Third .Liberty Loan was truly a people’s loan,” said the Prime Minister (Mr. .Fraser) when he made a final statement, to-night on the rer.nits, and conveyed to the people of the Dominion the Government’s warm thanks and congratulations on over-subscribing the loan by £4,276,740 which brought the total to £39,276,740. Still more significant of the people's backing of their country's war finance was the number of subscribers, the total of 431,839, comparing remarkably with the previous highest record of 30,000 subscribers to a New Zealand war loan. Liberty loan stock was bought by 65,501 investors of £29,826,600. Bonds were bought by 193,338 persons for £2.134.277. and 175.000 national savings depositors lent £7.315,863. The amounts raised in the 18 chief postal districts were detailed, together with, the percentage of the loan objective which they reached: —
ANOTHER ASPECT. DUNEDIN, July 16. A leading Dunedin accountant after an analysis of the subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, on the basis of the largest amount, per head of population, states that the honour goes to Southland. His figures deal with provincial population, amounts allotted per head, and the amounts subscribed. He states that actual subscription per head work out: Southland £2O/10/-, Otago £2O/7/6, West Coast £2O/6/-, Wellington £lB 13/6. Canterbury £l7/4/6, Auckland £l6/8/4. Marlborough £l6, Hawke's Bay £l4/10/9, Taranaki £ 13/7/6. and Nelson £l2/6/-.
£ Per cent. Melson 670,023 .122 IBlcnheim . 324.053 120 Wellington . 5.130,802 1.18 Inverear c ill . 1,489,855 114 Dunedin . 2,7.91,430 112 Auckland . 7,210,736 107 Gisborne . 509,435 101 Nev; Plymouth . . 1,082,204 98 Napier . 1,152,939 96 Wanganui 905.910 92 Timaru . 715,989 88 PaImerston Nor1!i 1,246,090 86 Christchurch . 3,423,687 <33 Oamaru . 249,446 82 Grevmouth . 364.602 79 Westport . 100,923 70 Hamilton . 1,346,088 64 Thames . 513,328 G3 National Institutions 10,011,000 —
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1943, Page 2
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