BRITAIN’S WAR SAVINGS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17287, 30 September 1916, Page 12

BRITAIN’S WAR SAVINGS.

REMARKABLE FIGURES. Somo remarkable figures were issued on August 1 by tho National War Savings Committee in reference to - War Savings Week in England and Wales. During tho week the number of War Savings Certificates sold was 2,926,035, being a total daily average of 487,072. Ail adjustmout of the figures for the week ended July 15 shows that the total issue of certificates up to that date.was 11,459,945, so that tho aggregate sales for 'the five months from February 22 to July 22 was 14,335,980, Tho aggregate for England aud Wales was 13,053,821. for Scotland 1,019,257, and for Ireland 312,902. During War Savings Week applications for £5, £2O and £SO Post Office Exchequer Bonds numbered 28,000, as compared with 19,000 in the previous week, and the value .of tlio bonds sold •was £700,000. This brought tho aggregate sales of Post Office Bonds to date up to 847,000, and tho aggregate value to £27,350,000. ■ ' Tho influence of War Savings Week on tho formation of "War Savings Associations was revealed in the large number of associations affiliated to the National Committee from day to day. During the five days from July'l7 to July 22 as many as 798 associations were affiliated, and in the following week- this number was increased by 1066, bringing the aggregate number of associations to date up to 4274. Tho latest inquiries for information as to how to' form a. War Savings Association came to the National Committee, .not from England, but in one case from Coomasie, and 'in another from Gibraltar.