PATRIOTS AND NON-PATRIOTS
POWER TO COMPEL THE LATTER TO GIVE. STATEMENT BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 24. Referring to the New Zealand War Loans, Sir Joseph Ward this afternoon said that any man of business would state that ho could do a gToat deal more with his money by turning it over half a dozen times in tho year than by investing it in inscribed stock at 4g per cent. Hundreds of people were, however, invctsting in the War Loans simply out of a sense of |jatriotio duty. Aiany people were borrowing money "to put it into tho loans, but there were some peoplo with money, he was sorry to say, who had put nothing into it at all. Sir Joseph Ward added that the Government was asking for power to compel these people to subscribe to the War Loan if it wero considered necessary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17092, 25 August 1917, Page 10
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