Correspondence: Letter to WWSA regarding the 3rd Liberty Loan

3rd Liberty Loan
£35,000,000

W.W.S.A. Groups 8.11.12.
C/- Miss Warburton,
College St.,
City.

Dear Sir,

£35,000,000 THIRD LIBERTY LOAN.

At the meeting of employers held recently, it was
resolved that the employers of this town should give
every possibility assistance and encouragement to their
staffs to contribute to the £35,000,000 Third Liberty
Loan.
In the matter of encouraging staff contributions,
it was decided that employers could best assist by
adopting one or more of several methods, as follows:—
(1) By urging the increasing of National War Savings
investments through existing Savings Groups, such
increases, of not made permanently, to be for a
period of several months, preferably up to the
31st Match next.
(2) By business firms themselves purchasing parcels of
bonds for subsequent re-sale to their employees on
the instalment plan over a period of several
months.
(3) By encouraging within their own establishments the
formation of staff groups for the purchase of
bonds on the instalment plan, the order of issue
of the bonds to be determined, if necessary, by
ballot, at the end of the contributing period.
(Explanatory leaflet attached.)
(Note.—Inscribed stock can be substituted for bonds
if desired).
(P.T.O.

We Must Succeed

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(Since the meeting, several firms have intimated
their intension of subsidizing the purchase of bonds by
their employees.)

In order that our town may, in this great National
effort, play its part with full credit, it is sincerely
hoped that you will use your best influence with those
in your employ to encourage their taking part in one of
the foregoing methods in the raising of the Third
Liberty Loan.

The meeting resolved also that Group Collectors,
together with other staff representatives interested in
the instalment-purchase-plan of bonds, should be
released from their places of employment to attend a
meeting to be held in the lounge, first floor, Chief
Post Office Building, at 9.30a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th.
inst.

It would be appreciated, therefore, if you would
arrange for your Group Collector, or in the absence of a
Group Collector, for some other staff representative of
your firm to attend the meeting.

Our boys overseas have shown time and time again,
that they shrink at no danger. Let us, their kinsfolk
back home, show that we shirk no sacrifice.

Yours faithfully,

[MA Eliott?]
Chairman.