BRITISH NEWS
SALE OF AN ENEMY BUSINESS. a uacraliau uid N-i* <'wi» j LONDON, Feb. 9. The Public Trustee is'ihviting British tenders for tho pin'chasO 'Of Siemens Bros, and Company,- electrical maiwifac 1 t-urers. VICTORY WAR LOAN. Australian and N.Z. Casbl? . IiGNDON, Feb. 9. A citizens' War Loan meeting at Belfast stfbscribbd a million, making the city's cbniribution £4,SW,oW.ySixty-v?f9 million wai 1, savinjgs iertificatee sold in Britain in ai year. There were many piilpit refereticeatodav urging l subscriptions ti>' thJe war kftiu (Rec. Feb. 12,9, qj.rn.) •, e • LONDON, -Fel*. % The war loan campaign- throughout •the country is Vigorous and l enthusiastic. The masses, from tKe_ poorest are responding splendidly. Industrial ■firms 1 ai'e subscribing largely and • are , helping the workers in every conceivable ■way to subscribe (moieties of their wages. SETTLEMENT OF SOLDIERS; Australian and N.Z LONDON, Feb. 9. The Colonial- Office is pi"epariflg • Ati; extensive scheme for the settlement; ; of soldiery within tho Empire, imping the money and- the Dominions W® l&rtd. British and Dominiohi will be placed-on the same footing. proposed machinery includes the Royal Commission's scheme moulded oft moat generous lines. :
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Nelson Evening Mail, 12 February 1917, Page 5
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