AUSTRALIAN LOANS
SYDNEY, May 10. The closing of Australia's first Victory Loan of £150.000.000 has been extended from last night till Friday night. Yesterday a shortage of £lO,€X)O.O(M> was required to be made up, but the latest reports indicate that the loan is going well, despite earlier anxiety. With the close of the first Victory Loan Australia will have contributed £700.000,000 to loans for the present war. The first loan, for 20 millions, was filled in three days. Three-quarters of the total of loan money has been raised in the past IS months No Australian loan bus cost more than 5/- a £lOO. compared with £1 a £l9O in some Allied countries. In the first World War Australian loans totalled only £180,000.000.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 6
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122AUSTRALIAN LOANS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 6
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