HIGH FINANCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3171, 23 August 1917, Page 7

HIGH FINANCE

I THE JINGLE OF LIBERTY COIN

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These are the days of high-finance, so high that whon you climb up and look down you get giddy. As you sit in the gloom of the picture theatre, watching scones from the battle front, you may perhaps see a white, cloud appear near the ground in the iuiddlo distance. Watching that cloud, you see sticks and stone 3 and other objects fly iuto tho air immediately after. You say to yourself: "Ha! Ono in tho eye for the Bosche!" But do you over realise that it cost hundreds, thousands, millions of golden sovereigns to put that little white cloud, where you saw it? Tho next picture, shows you what made the little wuite cloud. A huge gun re ars its nose, in'fo tho" air, remains poised for a few seconds, gives a backward jerk, and the picture is 'blotted out by a veil of sourrying smoke. Then tho 6cene changes, and you see another whito c'ou'a, and another geyser-liko shot of sticks, stones, dirt and—particles of Fritz. You see aeroplanes, warships, machineguns, ambulance men, trains, huge dumps of ammunition, soldiers marching to the front trench, soldiers coming back loaded with trophies of victory, others coming back—wounded. And everything you see is spelt— "M-l-L-L-i-O-N-S." Did any of it come out of YOUR- pocket? .Have you ever, .by separating yourself from the money that you keep by you .to spend in littlo extras for your own comfort and pleasure, helped 4o fire a gun on the Western front, mend a wounded man, kill a German, win..a battle, win the war?

You haven't! Well, I'm surprised. You »ught—nover - mind, it's never too lave to part up. WonTS you lilfe to make bullets for the men in the front trench, tho men who are keeping tho roofs oyer'your head; putting your three square meals a day on your table, and eending you to bed every night full of thankfulness—are you, though ?—that the Germans and tho Tutlcs. and the Bnlgars and theAustrians'aro thousands of miles away from, you? . You would? Then buy "a War-Loan Certificate or. two, or many, as the price of your liberty—and comfort. For 13s. you can buy a piece of paper that in ten years will return you one whole pound; for .£6los. you can realise in the same time ,£10; for .£65 you can earn ,£IOO at the end of ten years. -. Or perhaps you'd rather got your money back in five years. Well, then, a £t certificate will cost you 165., a jCIO certificate will cost you .£B, and a JIOO certificate; .£BO. "

Pexhaps you are a capitalist. • • I'm not thinking of the man who reckons his income by thousands, but of the little banking account in the Post Office with a hundred or so to your credit. Well, a Post Office War Bond is a good investment. You will get 5 per cent, for your money, payable every 6ix months. Tou can buy up to .£SOO worth of these bonds. That means per annum interest, freo of income tax.

Ladies,' gentlemen, girls, boys,' your country needs your money, money that you can easily manage to. do without— it only means a little, very little, selfsacrifice. Try doing without. The New Zealand Government wants i£22,000,-000—TWENTY-TWO MILLIONS! It -wants: immediately, tho rest it ; will, ask for latere on. ' : Do your bit!