Only £3,080,016 to Go

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 161, 9 July 1943, Page 4

Only £3,080,016 to Go

Fanners’ Leader Makes Stirring Appeal (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 8. Thursday’s Liberty Loan investments amounted to £1,779,824, bringing the total to £31,919,984. Thus the amount needed to achieve the loan total in one and a half days is £3,080,016. The Wellington area has a target of £4,381,000 and hit it handsomely to-day with £20,000 to spare, thus becoming entitled Liberty Flag No. 2. Following are the district figures to date:—

Institutions 8,310,000 "Come on Farmers! We have never been last yet. We won’t be last this time!" declared the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Mr. W. W. Mulholland) in a Liberty Loan appeal particularly directed to the producers. He reminded them of the exploits of our fighting men and of the country’s duty to keep them well supplied with equipment to finish the Job they had so well begun. We had to do the safer and easier part of providing the money, added Mr. Mulholland. There were other things, too, and ne urged farmers to do their part in making a success of the Third Liberty Loan.

‘‘The keeping open of our, sea routes," declared Mr. Mulholland, ‘‘has meant directly to you millions and millions of pounds. It has saved you from bankruptcy, and whatever you can spare from your farming operations is a small thing compared with what our hoys have done for you."

Hon. D. G. Sulivan has announced that the Tobacco Board has invested £SOO of its funds in the Third Liberty Loan and that the Footwear Plan Industrial Committee has invested £3OOO of the funds held on behalf oi the footwear industry.

Total Percent Subscribed £ age Balance £ Nelson 580,703 107 Wellington 4,401,419 100 Blenheim 263,874 97 8,126 Invercargill 1,257,077 97 37,923 Dunedin 2,297,699 92 194,301 Auckland 5,907,065 88 807,335 Gisborne 411,483 81 94,517 Napier 911,460 76 289,534 Wanganui 090,009 571,207 70 290,931 Timaru 70 242,793 N. Plymouth 766,628 09 343,372 Palm. North 989,759 08 455,241 Ch.-Ch. 2,049,467 04 1,465,533 Oamaru 188,867 02 115,133 Grevmouth 263,314 57 201,086 Westport 70,359 48 75,641 Hamilton 993,571 47 1,106,429 Thames National 389,357 46 409,643