"STOCKING" GOLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3059, 21 April 1917, Page 9

"STOCKING" GOLD

•• ' * . — — • " SMALL HOARDS; FOR THE "VTH • TORT" WAR LOAN A remarkable feature of the great Brii c i° ry a - , loall was 4 »o investment of long-cherjshed hoards of gold Instances recorded were:— ' ' ilan at Newcastle >snnn A St. Albans cattle dealer.. ' A-.**. Herts,' woman"Z; S A west .Ham man ,£lls A womajr at tie Mansion House »t95 , .Woman at a city post office ....... j.'so Sums, of and others fairly Jarge wero taken in coin'to tho Mansion House. At Lmsworth, Hants, gold investments at the post offico totalled •£I,OOO in ton days in contributions of from £1 to £100. At tlie Bank of Eu"- ■ 1 land in the last few days numbers of pcoplo—especially women—were- paving gold over the counter. Many of them brought it in bags tied to their wrists. Evory day ofFers .of nionoy free of interest and of. gifts, to the nation reached the Treasury and the National War Savings Committee. Some of them wore very large; others that were sent direct to ; .the Chancellor of the Exchequer included sixpences saved by children. Several ' in stamps or postal orders were received. ; "A mother and daughter" sent £1, and 1 a woman' forwarded- two £5 notes from Boscombe, Ilants. A Belgian, M. .Tncqucs Hamolecouirt, who had to leave his native country when the. Germans invaded it, took .£3OOO in notes to the Mansion Houso. Another interesting subscription was a JES picce.