WAR SAVINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1940, Page 6

WAR SAVINGS

THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN

(Per British Official Wireless..)

RUGBY, July 13

.Last week ; £20,056.484 was raised in the War;. Savings Qampaign,,. of -which )£f>|364,:155 'Hyai-ffrom; the sale- of SavIffßs Certificates, £10,633,515 from the sale of defence bonds,- awl ’£4,056,814 -from ap 'Bicrep^q,. in. due ' tb ..depositoi’sv«in:-t}iePostdfficer-SaV'-j.ing| Baffk’; and’ 'trustee 'Savings; bapks. (Sinceille, o pe nip g ; "o f,, ,thq .'campaign ,(£120,264:892 has -'been: raiseth; bysale "of -savings certificates, and £119,979,690 by sale xif deferieb jbonds.o, -During -.■.the ,:-same .period-; the <>balance,-due to depositors inritheuPosfc Office.Barings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks has increased by £38,415,314 —a grand 4 0ta 9%)• iSi JCf ,»*►- Gifts from the colonies to help Britain win the .war keep pouring in. -A;ri}iiu'g"'tlii ; ' ; amoin'its' received yesterday were £IOO,OOO from Barbadoes. .00(10 ni 5. v , a_ ..firstJnstahmmt. from Nigeria Win”" the War Fund, £2,100 subscribed by people of St. Lucia as a first instalment towards the cost of a- fighter plane, and £IOOO from the .Ankole (Uganda) Native Administrg. r _