WAR LOAN
MAORIS SUBSCRIBE £10,000
. (By Telegraph—Pres* Association.) GISBORNE, This Day. A subscription of £ 10,000 to the war loan has been made on behalf of Native interests-in the district by the East Coast Commissioner, Mr. J. S. Jessep. Half -of this sum was subsci"ibed on account of the. Mangatu portion of the East- Coast Trust and the ■ other half on. account of owners in the balance of the trust- whose- lands extend from Tolaga Bay and Matawai to Wairoa. In all there are over 7000 shareholders in the trust.
The' trust was not liable, under the regulations to take up any of the loan, but fhe Maori people had expressed to the Commissioner a strong desire to make a contribution.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 13
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120WAR LOAN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 13
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