LIBERTY LOAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 84, 25 June 1943, Page 5

LIBERTY LOAN

£23,489 TO DATE I.AHGKT OF tT.I.dOO The sum of £23,489 has been subscribed within the Whakatane Postal area, to the Third Liberty Loan of £35,000,000. Details arc:— HI Subscribers £20,420 Bonds 2,125 National Saivngs 944 Total £23,489 The target for this district is now stated to be £75,000 and with approximately a third of this sum in hand it appears likely that providing the same tempo can be maintained that this will be forthcoming. The smaller bond-holders however are still lagging andl it can only be surmised that the average person is( still not seized fully with, the fact thatvthis is eevrybody's loan ?l and , fyrthW, that the. investment is the finest available to-tlay. - ' ' ' Give to the\,Liberty Loan and provide for to-morrow. i V • " SUM OF VOTED action jjy /:ouN{ry' council ./ ' '* The Whakatane County Coun- et cil at its/meeting last Tuesday decided to set aside the sufihn of £5000 from its Plant Reserve, Fund, fop taking of scrip in the Third Liberty: Loan, for the short term period l . * ; The chairman,- Mr.J. L. Burnett, said that iiie considered such action, ail excellent, one as the money was only lyhijf idle;-JKs< it was. Cr Cawjie; We definitely won't i>e needing 'i t ? < The chairman: We don't know but avo. Vdou't think Ave; will. If you li.steneclSto General Freyberg's speech it doeiaVj. appear that the war's jiuing to , end soon, Cr There Avas probably policy in tha,t —a Avarning rot to go to sleep on the job. On. the motion of. the chairman and Crt[the council unanimously decided to release the for the purpose abOA'e mentioned.