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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1920, Page 6

DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND. 'PRICE OF ISSUE: PA3. TERM OF LOAN: 12 YEARS. The attention of the public is specially drawn to the provisions of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Loans Act, 1920, under which persons can be coiKpslled to contribute to Use Loan an amount equal to the yearly average of ■ he iund-tax and income-tax paid or payable by them for the three years ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty. All moneys invested under the compulsory clauses of the Act will bear interest at tho rate of three per cent, par annum only. N.B.—lt must be noted that the amount fixed by Act is the minimum subscription only. Every person is expected to invest to the full extent of his ability. Subscribers to previous Loans are not relieved from obligation to subscribe to this Loan. Subscription List will be closed < 25th v November, 1920. The Loan is authorised to be raised under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Loans Act, 1920, and pursuant to the New Zealand Loans Act, 1908, aud both capital and interest will be charged upon the consolidated revenue of the "Dominion. The Loan will be utilised for the purposes of settlement on the land ol' <nl Soldiers SeUkmeui Act, 1.915, and will take the form either of Inscribed st«»k or (Bearer-bonds, at the opium of the subscriber, or Pest Offfcfl Investment Certificates or other securities , £2,500,000 of the Loan will be reserved for individual persons who desire jo in vest in Inscribed Stock which will lie available for payment in New Zealand of death duties. Applications for this class of security must be specially ►narked. These securities will not be transferable, but may be exchanged ut the Treasury for other available securities if so desired. Should applications he received in excess of £2,500,000, an allotment will be made by the Controller and Auditor-General, and any sums which cannot be accepted for Death Duty Stock may be invested in ordinary Stock or Bonds, at the option of Hie subscriber. The issue is an investment authorised by the Trustee Act, 1908, and Trustees may invest therein. Applications will not be accepted for less than £IOO, but investors may 1 subscribe sums of £1 and Upwards, for a period of five or ten years, at any Postal Money-order Office. The bonds will be issued in denominations of £IOO, £SOO, and £IOOO, or such higher denominations as may be arranged, and will be payable to bearer. Stock will not be issued for any amount under £IOO, and any sum ap- * \lied for in excess of £IOO must be a multiple of £lO. The Loan will be repaid at par at the Treasury, Wellington, or at any 'ittinch of the Bank of New Zealand in the Dominion on 15th January, 1933. The Minister of Finance may in special circumstances and by mutual ar- , rangement accept investments for a shorter period than twelve years, bearing interest at a lower rate than five and a half per cent, per annum, and issue securities therefor. Interest on Bonds and Stock will be paid half-yearly, on 16th January, and 15th July, and is not free of income-tax. The first interest will be paid on 15th July, 1921. luterest on fully-paid allotments and on the first instalment of instalment allotments will accrue from date of lodgment for credit of the Public Account at the nearest branch of any Bank or of any Postal Money-order Office. luterest on second, third, fourth, and fifth lodgments of instalment allotments will date from the respective dates of payment shown under heading "Lodgments." Interest on Inscribed Stock will be paid by Dividend Warrant, whioh will be transmitted by post, or the amount will be credited to a banking account; at the option of the subscribers. Interest on Bonds will he paid on production of Coupon, except the first payment, which will be by Treasury cheque. -° Both Warrants and Coupons will be payable, free of exchange, at the Treasury, Wellington, or at any Postal Money-order Office or branch of the Bauk of New Zealand iu the Dominion, or in London or Australia as may be arranged. CONVERSION.— HoIders of Bonds issued under this Loan will have the option of converting such Bonds into five and a half per cent. Inscribed Slocl" on any half-yearly due date of iuterest. LODGMENTS.— Forms of application' may be obtained and lodgments made at any Postal Money-order Office, or at any branch o,f any Bank, or at the Treasury at Wellington. Lodgments will he made as follows: — Fultyiiak} Awctrcenls— On application 100 per cent. Insta'.iflersi Allotments — 2!) per cent, on applicati on (first instalment); 20 per cent, (second instalment), Monday, 10th January, 1921; 20 per cent, (third instalment), Thursday, 17th February, 1921; 20 per cent, (fourth instalment), Monday, 21st March, 1921; 20 jter cent, (fifth instalment), Thursday, 28th April, 1921. Instalments may be prepaid. In case of default in the payment* of any instalment at its due date, instalments previously paid will be liable to forfeiture. Provisional receipts will be issued for all payments, and iu the case of investments in Bonds these receipts will be exchangeable for Bonds to Bearer as soon as the latter can he prepared. In the case of Stock Investments Inscription-certificates will be posted i.o investors wheu the amounts are fully paid up. The Stock will, be Inscribed in accordance with the New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917 (read in conjunction with the New Zealand Loans Act, 1908), and the inscription-books of the Loan will be kept at the Dominion Treasury, at Wellington, where all transfers of Stock will be made. Trans-fer-forms'may be obtained at the Treasury. The Banks have agreed to allow advances at a reasonable rate of interest to clients who desire to invest in the Loan but who have not the ready money to enable them to do so within the time prescribed. Registered Sharebrokers will be allowed a commission of 5s per £IOO on allot "tents made in respect of applications for this issue bearing their stamp, and forwarded to the Treasury through any Bank or Postal Money-order Office under cover of memorandum signed by the sharebroker. No commission will be allowed iu respect of applications on forms which have not been printed by the Government Printer, or on applications not forwarded as aforesaid, or oil applications for Post-office Investment Certificates, or on applications madfe after the closing of the Loan. POST OFFICE INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES. To enable persons of moderate means to subscribe to the Loan, applications will be received at any Postal Money-order Office for Post Office Investment Certificates. Investment Certificates are repayable, with interest compounded, at the end of five or ten years. Full particulars regarding the Post Office Investment Certificates are obtainable at any Postal Money-order Office. DEPRECIATION FUND. Provision has been made for the establishment of a special fund not exceeding £50,000 per annum for the purpose of stabilising- the value of securities issued under the authority of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1920, and providing, in addition to the Sinking Funds established under the Public Debt Extinction Act, a further means of reducing the debt. APPLICATIONS will close on 25th November, 1920, but the Minister of Finance reserves the right to close at a prior date or to extend the. period. W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance, Treasury, Wellington, N.Z., Ist November, 1920.

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