FOURTH VICTORY LOAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1943, Page 4

FOURTH VICTORY LOAN

THREE WEEKS’ CAMPAIGN IN CANADA. READY RESPONSE BEING MADE. OTTAWA, April 26. A three weeks’ campaign for Canada's Fourth Victory Loan was officially opened today. Public authorities across Canada are rivalling in the effort to drive the loan well beyond the 1,100,000,000 dollars objective. In Winnipeg the loan officials brought together representatives of the many European nationalities living within the civic area in a parade pageant showing the unity of the free nations in the fight against the Axis. A costumed town crier opened the drive in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Calgary presented a promissory note for 33,000,000 dollars as the city’s objective to the Minister of Finance, Hon. Jas. L. Ilsley, who spoke there today. Vancouver erected a sixty-five foot replica of H.M.S. Repulse on the busiest street, and adopted the slogan, “Replace the Repulse.” • A group of British airmen at the bombing school at Picton, Ontario, pledged themselves to make bond purchases nearly double the quota allotted the entire school. Small buyers are reported to be responding promptly. A country doctor in Saskatchewan drove into Weyburn with 151 applications totalling 26,300 dollars. Unable to make a substantial contribution to the loan because of limited finances, members of the Canadian Seamen’s Union in Montreal pledged themselves to provide at least five hundred donors to the Red Cross “Blood Bank.”