LIBERTY LOAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1943, Page 2

LIBERTY LOAN

NEARLY £32,000,000 IN HAND MR MULHOLLAND APPEALS TO FARMERS. OBLIGATIONS TO FIGHTING FORCES. (By Telegraph—“Times-Age” Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Yesterday’s Liberty Loan investments amounted to £1,779,824, bringing the total to £31,919.984. Thus the amount needed to achieve the loan total in one and a half days is £3,080,016. The Wellington area has a target of £4,381,000 and hit it handsomely yesterday with £20,000 to spare, thus becoming entitled to fly Liberty Flag No. 2; The Auckland district total was raised yesterday to £5,907,665, 88 per cent of the target figure. “Come on farmers —we have never been last yet; we won’t be last this time,” declared the President of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Mr W. W. Mulholland) in a Liberty Loan appeal particularly directed to the producers. He reminded them of the exploits of our fighting men and of the country’s duty to keep them well supplied with equipment to finish the job they had so well begun. We had to do the safer and easier part of providing the money, added Mr Mulholland. There were other things, too, and he urged' farmers to do their part in making a success of the Third Liberty Loan. “The keeping open of our sea routes,” declared Mr Mulholland, “has meant directly to you millions and millions of pounds. It has saved you from bankruptcy, and whatever you can spare from your farming operations is a small thing compared with what, our boys have done for you.”

TOTAL NOW £334,405 AUTOGRAPHED BONDS ON SALE TOMORROW. GENERAL FREYBERG’S SIGNATURE The total amount subscribed to date in Masterton and district to the Liberty Loan is £334,405. Yesterday’s figures were: Stock investments, 46 subscribers, £13,110; bonds, £574; war savings deposits, £2056. Tomorrow some bonds autographed by Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg will be on sale at the Masterton Post Office. These bonds, on being in due course cashed, will be returned to the holders as souvenirs. £2OO INVESTED IN LOAN. A special meeting of the council of the Masterton Free Kindergarten Association was held to discuss the investing of funds in the Third Liberty Loan, and it was unanimously decided that £2OO be invested.