BRITISH WAR FINANCE
READY PURCHASE OF BONDS BIG FIGURES REACHED IN EIGHT DAYS. FREE OF INTEREST LOANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. July 2. Urging continuous and increasing support for the 21 per cent national war bonds, of which the total subscribed ine eight days up to this evening is £61.000.000. the Governor of the Bank of England. Mr Montagu Norman, said British finance was starting on sounder lines than in the last war. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, in the House of Commons, said that to date the total amount received in free-on-interest loans was £6.766.080 sterling, apart from various offers indicated but not yet completed:
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1940, Page 5
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