LIBERTY LOAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1943, Page 2

LIBERTY LOAN

MASTERTON SUBSCRIPTIONS GRAND TOTAL £239,852. PROGRESS OF LOCAL CAMPAIGN. Yesterday 26 subscribers of Liberty Loan stock in Masterton invested £4190, making the total stock investments to date £198,545. Bonds to the value of £1655 were sold yesterday to 79 purchasers and war savings deposits amounted to £4451. The grand total for all forms of Liberty Loan investment locally is now £239,852. Everyone in Masterton should make a point of wearing a Liberty Loan button, indicating that they are subscribers to the loan. The buttons are now on issue to all investors.

DOMINION CAMPAIGN NEARING £20,000,000 MARK. WELLINGTON DISTRICT INVESTMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Thrd Liberty Loan has now reached £19,484,390. Yesterday’s investments at £1,054,965 were £445,035 short of the daily average of £1,500,000 required if the loan is to succeed by the campaign closing date, July 10. Each day that this average is not reached makes greater the average required daily for the remainder of the campaign. To exceed £35,000,000, as was hoped when the campaign started, the response in many parts of New Zealand will need to improve considerably. The Wellington district total (including the metropolitan area) up to Monday night was £2,658,088. The metropolitan area total alone is £2,238,490, of which £109,557 was invested on Monday. There has been a good response from the meeting of workers addressed by Mr Nash in Petone. By yesterday afternoon the staff of one firm had £1384 in investments from 57 contributors. Fifteen employees of the Malleable Casting Company of N.Z., Petone, have invested £4OO between them. The staff of Todd Motors, Petone, has invested £7OO, and that of New Zealand Motor Bodies, Limited, Petone, more than £7OO. Staff contributions from 97 employees at the C. and A. Odlin Timber a’nd Hardware Co., Ltd., Petone, total £2348, which has been increased by £9OO by the staff of the Wellington branch. This firm will take up as many £1 bonds as its employees invest shillings. From the staff of Griffin and Sons, Limited, Waiwhetu, where the 250 employees are mostly women and girls, the response is £2750.