VICTORY LOAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 25 May 1945, Page 2

VICTORY LOAN

WELLINGTON’S STRONG LEAD DOMINION TOTAL £13,677,699 Wellington, This Day. Tlie Wellington (listriot jumped further into the lend in' the 1943 Victory Loan contest yesterday by at twining H 7 per cent, of its quota. On the (lav before. the Wellington loan area hail 39 per cent, of its quota in hand. Auckland, still in second place, had obtained 00 per cent, of its quota yesterday. Dominion-wide receipts yesterday amounted to £710.148, including £40,400 of redeemed promises. The national total since the inception of the loan to the close of business last night, reports the Deserve Bank, was £13.077.099. The amounts and percentages of objectives of the 20 War Loan districts are now: Wellington. £2.403.070, 07; Auckland, £3,473.980. (jo'• Southland, £743,437, 39; Taranaki. £320.748. 30; Wairarapa. £211.188. 34; Otago. £1.207.253. 33; North Otago. £120,790. 33; South Canterbury. £309.4.11, 32: Wanganui. £405,124. 52i Hawke’s Bay. £470.959, 50; Marlborough. £120,091. 49; Northland, £221.319. 49; Gisborne-Fast Coast, £212,717, 49; Nelson. £243.904. 47; Wai-kato-King Country, £033,885. 47; Manawatu. £510.820. 4.7; Westland. £154,920, 40; Thames-Bay of Plenty. £252.688, 40; Canterbury, £1,335,929, 45; Buller. £40.848, 45. APPROACH TO FARMERS “The national income continues to expand.’’ States the National War Loan Council. "Wage revisions now in progress are estimated on a conservative basis to be putting into the pockets of the workers at least £10,000,009 more, and price adjustments at the beginning of the year in connexion with the British purchases of our food products will, it is stated bv a competent authority, add another £8,000,000 a year to the incomes of dairy farmers and meat producers. They have worked hard for it, because labour on the land has not been adequate. Nor can all this income be spent; therefore the district war loan committees hope to get very generous Joan subscriptions from the men on the land. The National War Loan Council has communicated with all the dairy companies of the Dominion asking for their backin': in the personal approach which is to be made to their suppliers by the district war loan committees. The 1945 Victory Loan will, it is confidently predicted, make a spurt when this appeal to the f n rmers is in full swing.