TOTAL £275,203

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1943, Page 2

TOTAL £275,203

LIBERTY LOAN INVESTMENTS

masterton figures.

GOOD PROGRESS MAINTAINED.

To date Mastbrton and district rodents have invested £275203 in the Hurd Liberty Loan. Yesterday, 28 subsci ibers took up stock worth £7390 and .>4 purchasers obtained bonds to the value of £674, while war savings deposits amounted to £2107. . Included in yesterday’s stock investments was £lOOO from the Masterton County Council. TOWN CONGRATULATED BY GOVERNOR OF RESERVE BANK. MAYOR HOPES EFFORTS WILL NOT RELAX. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, has received a telegram from Mr Ward, Governor of the Reserve Bank, congratulating Masterton on having reached its objective of £260,800 and thanking the members of the committee for their wonderful effort. Mr Jordan said he hoped the public would not relax in its efforts to support the loan, as every £1 would be required. “I hope the district will continue in the lead,” added the Mayor.

DISTRICT TARGETS HOW THEY WERE FIXED. EXPERIENCE OF EARLIER LOANS & NATIONAL SAVINGS. ‘ — & (By Telegraph—“Times-Age” Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the present stage of the Third Liberty Loan campaign, the 18 war loan committees in each chief postal district are narrowly watching each other’s day to day totals, states the National War Loan Committee. Who will first reach the objective? There is keen rivalry and several sub-com-mittees within the areas of the district organisations have already scored the bull’s eye. They are not relaxing, however, because their aim is to ,see the whole district on top.

The eighteen loan objectives which are now becoming so prominent were not fixed arbitrarily, without regard to the resources and obligations of the areas concerned. There has been the experience of two previous war loans and the sustained effort in connection with national war savings as guides to what is reasonably possible. The district “target” for the 35 million loan is approximately eight times the amount raised annually through the national savings scheme, and the total of these targets equals 35 millions. DOMINION CAMPAIGN OVER £25,000,000 SUBSCRIBED. MASTERTON’S SPLENDID EFFORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A total of £2,064,040 was subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan yesterday to make the Dominion total £25,266,460. There remains £9,733,540 to be subscribed in the eight days left between today and July 10, when the campaign will close. The metropolitan area total on Thursday night was £2,673,886, and that day’s investments £179,417. Some towns which are not chief postal centres are keeping separate records. Masterton, with an objective of £260,800, has now exceeded its target by £14,400. Masterton’s per centage is 116.