FRANCE'S GOLDEN TIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1628, 24 October 1916, Page 4

FRANCE'S GOLDEN TIDE.

A YEAH ago, M. Tiibot, Minister lor .Finance, appealed to the French nation to bring its hoarded gold to the Bank of France, and thus help the Stale’s finances in the great .struggle for national defence; and efforts are still being made to collect and transmit to the Bank of France the considerable sums in (lie precious metal believed even now to remain hidden away in the people’s yvoollon stocking. Something approebing the figure of Kit),00(1,(1(10 in gold currency has already been handed in to the Bank of France during the twelve mouths expired, and, according to rough estimates, sui equivalent sum in gold money .still lies secreted all over the eoitn2ry. A national gold committee was lately formed, whose aim it is to procure this wealth for the State. There are represeplatives on the commit tee of all calling* and classes of national activity, P.ronpnejjj representatives of industry, .agrienllure, trade, science, politics, literalure, and lhe press tire now causing an appeal to be posted up in all the “communes” of France to encourage the timid to bring their quota of go blew Jouis to I lie bank in exchange for banknotes or “bonds (du tresor." The north ah( 1 east of France —regions which have chiefly suffered from invasion or its consequences —have shown the most alacrity in exchanging their gold for paper, but not forgetting 1 patriotic Paris, These • popafaifipps have parted resolutely with their it repsture for the great cause.