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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4655, 4 September 1917, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 3. Very brisk war loan business was done 'at the Post Office to-day, the building being invaded bv crowds of people. The following investments were" made to-day: 4 per cent, ivai bonds, £160,250; war loan certificates. £29,332; post office war bonds, £52,500. Total for the day, £242,082. DUNEDIN. Sept. 3. Tlie following local applications for participation in the War Loan weie made to-day: Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co. £26,350, Dunedin Savings Bank £200,000, Ivanhoe Lodge £SOO. Chas. Begg and Co Ltd , £IO,OOO. United Otago District Foresters £2OOO, Victoria Insiirance Co. £IO,OOO, R. Hudson and Go. £15.000 Thomson and Co. £d00l) 'INVERCARGILL. Sept 8Tlie Invercargill Post Office, has taken £236,000- for the War Loan and the city hank returns have still to come in, so that the complete figures will be well over £300.000. AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. Auckland war loan subscriptions, so far as completed, total, over two millions, and several subscriptions are to come in. Amounts! passed through the banks amounted to approximately a million, and the Post Office handled £532,000. Large subscriptions to-day from the New Zealand and South British Insurance Companies (each £100,000) are not included in the banks’ total.