HELP TO WIN THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1601, 22 August 1916, Page 3

HELP TO WIN THE WAR.

THE SMALL MAN’S CHANCE,

Kis WILL BUY A £1 WAR LOAN

CERTIFICATE,

With a. vieAV to giving small inA'estors a chance to do their bit to help Avin the Avar, the period duringAA’hieh they may apply for W ar Loan certificates through the Rost Cilice has been extended for some Aveeks longer’. This has been done, as Sir Joseph Ward (the Minister for Finance) explained, in order that those who have payments shortly falling due to them may have an opportunity of investing them in the loan. OPEN TO MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD. The Government’s offer of a £1 War Loan certificate for lbs or a £lO War Loan certificate for £B, is open to any man, Avoman or child in the Dominion avlio has the necessary lbs or £B, or any number of such sums to spare. If any reader has lbs, or twice, thrice, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, or eA T en more times that sum, then he or she can help to win the war, can help to provide for our gallant soldiers the munitions, the food, and the clothing they need Avliile fighting for King and country, for our Empire, and for the rights and freedom of humanity. “Somewhere in France,” in Egypt defending the Suez Canal, or olseAvliere, our brave lads are “doing their bit.” Though you cannot go to the front, you can help to Avin the Avar, and you can help yourself, too, by buying these War Loan certificates. For every lbs you pay doAvn the Government Avill give you a, £1 War Loan certificate payable to bearer in five years, Avhich means that you receive compound interest on your money at 41 per cent.

HOW TO GET THE CERTIFICATES.

The postmaster at the nearest money order ollice will give you full particulars in regard to the War Loan certificates. To invest in the loan is as easy as buying a pair of boots, and you need have no fear that you may lose your War Loan certificate before the five years are up, for the Post Office will take charge of your certificates for you if you wish. The Post Office will give you a receipt for them, and take a specimen of your signature, as when you open a Post Office Savings Bank account, for the purpose of identifying you when Ihe five years are up and you want to apply for the £1 you will then be entitled to for every His you put in now.

WHAT ENTHUSIASM. CAN DO,

Hastings, August. 21

£4,000 worth of Avar certificates were sold by the post office staff at, an open-air demonstration at the raihvay crossing on Saturday night. At a meeting at the Theatre on .Friday night £1,175 was invested, and at the post ollice on Saturday business Avas so brisk that the staff had to replenish its slock of certificates from Napier. Telegrams Avere received from Sir Joseph Ward congratulating the people of Hastings on the liberal manner of subscribing. Wanganui, August 21. The open air demonstration in aid of the war loan on Saturday resulted in £5,488 being invested, including £3,088 in certificates. £0,250,000 SUBSCIiIBEU. SIB JOSEPH BEATIFIED. WILL TAKE ALL THAT COMES. The folloAving message avus sent out to the editors of all newspapers in Noav Zealand last night:— I am glad to he able to inform you that applications for the War Loan total a little over nine and a-quarter millions. This is eminently satisfactory and speaks eloquently of the fine feeling of the inhabitants and their desire to be associated Avilh the Motherland in helping in an unparalleled crisis. Happily at present the signs of victory are more pronounced than has been the case since the beginning of the strug- ■ gle, and the subscription of such a large sum of money so promptly from the most distant part of the overseas Dominions is a happy augury for the future. J. G. WARD. I .. SOME DETAILS. THE MINISTER INTERVIEWED. i, Wellington, Last Night. “It is all right,” said the Minister for Finance when asked by a reporter to-night as to the amount of success that had attended the issue of the War Loan. Over nine and a quarter millions have been subscribed. Applications for Avar bonds through the Post Office totalled £1,227,200; applications for War Loan certificates through the Post Ollice amounted to £35/,148; applications for War Bonds through the banks amounted to £1,600,050; applications through the