WAR LOANS AND GIFTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 94, 19 March 1940, Page 8

WAR LOANS AND GIFTS.

CONTIN UED I?ESPOXSE. Per Press Association, WELLINGTON. March 18. The following further interest-free loans and donations to the Government arc announced: — Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Napier, £10.000; D.1.C., Dunedin, £IO,OOO, for the duration and six months thereafter; Mr T. Jordan, Masterton, £•100; Fl.ygcr and Carter, Ltd., New Plymouth', £3OO for the duration; Anonymous, Taumarunui, £250 for the duration and twelve months; Mrs A. C. Braksfield, Wanganui, £2OO for the duration and six months; Auckland Provincial District Local Authorities Officers’ Industrial Union of Workers, £200; Anonymous, Christchurch, £100; Dr. and Mrs D. G. McMillan, Dunedin, £IOO for the duration; Anonymous, Mokai, £IOO for the duration and six months; the Otago Storemen's, Packers’, and Warehouse Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, Dunedin. £IOO for the duration and 12 months; Anonymous, Stewart laland, £100; Anonymous, Dunedin, £100; Co-op. Fisheries (N.Z.), Ltd., Thames, £100; Mr John Chapman, Nelson, £IOO for the duration and six months; Mr W. Currv, Woodvillc, £IOO for the duration and 12 months. Seven other amounts ranging from £6O to £lO, two of which are straightout donations, bring She total to date to £1,255,853.

HAWKE’S BAY OFFER. Per Press Association. NAPIER, March 18. The Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union has decided to place a £IOOO free-of-in-tercst war loan with the Government for the duration of the war and six months thereafter.