LIBERTY LOAN
The Reserve Bank stated Liberty Loan receipts up to Friday night totalled £8,182,840, comprising 2J per cent, stock £3,026,250, three per cent, stock £5,156,590. Recent applications included ‘Prudential Assurance Company £50,000; Union Steam Ship Co., £50,000, Wright, Stephenson and Co., a further £lO,OOO, making a total of £20,000, and D.I.C. £lO,OOO. Investments in Greymouth postal district up to Saturday amounted to £31,272, made up as follows: Hokitika £22,435, Greymouth £7480, Reefton £llO5, Wataroa £-100, Waiuta £5O, Runanga £3O, Brunnerton £3O, Kumara £22, and Jackson Bay” £2O. The total includes £3OB in £1 bonds.
On Saturday 'there was £6050 paid in through the Greymouth banks and a further £203 was raised in a special effort for a little over an hour by several members of the Greymouth 'W.W. S.A., assisted by announcements by Mr. E. N. Taylor over a .loud-speaker system arranged by Mr. L. Schaef on an Army 'truck’. The total of £203 included one contribution of £lOO and another of £5O and the rest was from £1 bonds. Further selling days will be held this week in a special effort for the sale of £1 bonds.
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Grey River Argus, 25 May 1942, Page 1
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