LIBERTY LOAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 2

LIBERTY LOAN

INVESTMENTS IN STOCK MASTERTON TOTAL. BONDS & WAR SAVINGS FIGURES On Saturday two applications for Liberty Loan stock were received in Master ton for £4OO, making a total to date of £185,475. Other business on Saturday included the purchase of bonds for £332 by 32 investors and deposits amounting to £ll6B by war savings contributors. The grand total to date is £214,693. This figure includes stock investments, bond purchases and war savings deposits. NEARLY HALF WAY NEW ZEALAND TARGET. MASTERTON QUOTED BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Liberty Loan has reached £l7,477.915, representing practically half of the New. Zealand target of £35,000,000, with two weeks of the campaign to go. Including buyers of bonds and national savings accounts, the total of subscribers is now 124,121. The Minister- of Finance, Mr Nash, said last night that previously published figures had included only those who had purchased stock and bonds for £lO or more. These numbered 41,000. A pleasing and satisfactory result was disclosed from the preliminary count of the buyers of £1 bonds, and depositors to war savings accounts. These amounted to 78,000 with the list still incomplete. The following was a summary .to date: Stock applications, 28,944 • for £16,078,465; £lOO bonds, 496 for £68,635; £lO bonds, 11,571 for £253,120; £1 bonds, 28,110 for £55,918; national war savings accounts, 55,000 for £1,021,777; a total of 124,121 investors for £l7,477.915. x • Districts which had passed the halfway mark in reaching their targets were: Wellington, 59 per cent, £2,591,488; Auckland, 54 per cent, £3,614,047; Nelson, 52 per cent, £286,799; Dunedin, 51 per cent, £1,274,249; Invercargill, 51 per cent, £663,568.

National institutions had subscribed £4,660,000. The result was excellent, said Mr Nash, and he was looking forward to records being broken this week. Masterton, a sub-district of Wellington, had raised 80 per cent of its quota. “We must not let up,” the Minister added. “Everyone who has not subscribed should do so and subscribe to the limit, while some of those who have already done so may be able to do more. I am sure New Zealand will respond to the call and that when the final figures are given we shall achieve a record both as to numbers of investors and the amount invested.”