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Progress, Volume XII, Issue 12, 1 August 1917, Page 1044

St FIVE PER CENT. 5 1 POST OFFICE WAR BONDS Applications close on Sept., 3rd 1917 INTEREST payable half-yearly, at 5 per cent, per annum, on 15th May and 15th November In each year, not free from Income tax. No person may obtain more than £SOO worth of Post Office War Bonds. THESE Bonds are issued to meet the requirements of men and J. women of small means who desire payment of interest half-yearly, and do not wish it to accumulate as in War Loan Certificates. They have a currency of TEN YEARS, maturing on 15th November, 1927, and may be made payable to order if so desired. Interest will be paid from 3rd September, 1917, and the first payment will be made on 15th May, 1918, amounting to £3 9s. 7d., and thereafter, at £2 10s. half-yearly on each £IOO bond. Applications must be made on a special form to be obtained from any Post Office, and every applicant must declare that the amount applied for does not bring his holding of Post Office War Bonds beyond a total of £SOO. Payment for Bonds may be made at any Postal" Money-order Office. Applications close on Monday 3rd September, 1917. Wellington, Ilth August, 1917. JOSEPH GEORGE WARD, Minister of Finance.