NEAR APPROACH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1943, Page 2

NEAR APPROACH

TO LIBERTY LOAN GOAL 0 ON SECOND LAST DAY FOUR POSTAL DISTRICTS EXCEED OBJECTIVES. NELSON NINE PER CENT BEYOND. (By Telegraph—“Times-Age” Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The 35 million Liberty Loan campaign is now within £393,289 of success. Friday’s investments of £2,686,778 —an exceptional day’s results — brought the total to £34,606,762, excluding business done by banks and money order offices from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m., when they opened specially for the convenience of investors. Nelson, the holders of the No. 1 Liberty Flag, sent" the total to nine per cent over the objective and Wellington to five per cent over its quota. Blenheim and Invercargill have' also passed their objectives. The Auckland district made a notable advance by lifting the proportion of its realised objective yesterday from 88 to 97 per cent. TOTAL £362,542 MASTERTON’S FINAL FIGURE. OVER £lOO,OOO ABOVE QUOTA. Masterton’s Liberty Loan quota, at the close of business today, was £362,542, which is over £102,000 in excess of the quota of £260,000. The quota has thus been exceeded by over 39 per cent. This morning’s investments were— Liberty Loan stock, £5,870; bonds, £l,450; war savings deposits, £1,043; grand total. £362,542. Brisk business was recorded yesterday, when e 6B investors purchased stock worth £13,890. Bonds for £4078 were also sold to 269 purchasers and war savings -deposits amounted to £1798. This brought the total up to the close of business yesterday to £354,179. This figure represents 136 per cent of the quota. Among yesterday’s subscribers in Masterton in the Liberty Loan was an 80-year-old resident, Mr John Maxwell, who invested £l5OO. The Masterton Little Theatre Society and the Masterton Kennel Club have invested funds in the Third Liberty Loan. NOTABLE INVESTMENT BY PARENTS OF NAVAL AIRMAN. TRIBUTE TO GALLANT DEAD. , (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. One of the distinctive investments in the Third Liberty Loan this week was made by Mrs Irene .Patterson and Mr John Patterson, of Woodville. It amounted to £lO5, being the savings and allowances during ten months of training for the Fleet Air Arm of their son, Brian Arthur Patterson, who, with six companions, was killed in a flying accident in Scotland. “My husband and I,” wrote Mrs Patterson, “wish this money to be placed on active service as a tribute to the boys of the Fleet Air Arm and Air Force who have lost their lives in flying accidents in the cause of freedom.”