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BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES .
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom full Information and the necessary forms may be obtained—
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,
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War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years
after purchase
£500 £1
Purchaca Price
£387 10 0
15. 6d.
FREE OF INCOME. TAX.
For every 156. 84. Jant now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time aquivalent to 6 per cent. com- pound, interest. No Income Tax will be payable."
Anyons, whatever his or her income may be. can buy War Savings Certificates up to. 2- maximum of 500 £1 Gertitacates in all or their'squivalent..!!
Meanwhile the money may" bo withdrawn in full any time, with an addition after the first year.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser to receive £1 for each 15s. 6d. on the fifth Anniversary of the date of purchase, fre of income tax in respect of the accump- lated interest.
(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Poetmaster General; a fee of li, will be charged in. respect of each transferee. In the event of death, the same rules will be applied
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as in the case of Savings Bank o (3) On written application (on obtainable at any Post Office) being made to the Controller, Department, Lander, the aucy Order purchase price,
or part thereof in multiples of 158. 6d.. will be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3d. for each 15s. 6d. on the Arst anniversary of the case of purchase and with a further addition of Id. per las. 6d. for each month thereafter.
(4) No"person may hold more than 400 El Certificates or their equivalent.
The 51 Certificates (purchase price 1ba6d.) are tasted in book form. The Certificates for £19 (purchase price £9 6a) and £25 (purchase price £10 a 0d.) are issued without books. The £1, £19 and £25 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banka.
Single Certificates for sams from £100 to £500 may be obtained on application Comptroller and Accountant General General Post Office, London: *pplication forms are available at all
Offices and at most Banks. If Certificates by Cat, azd the serial numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart. ment, new Certificates will be issued at
charge of le.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
June, 1016..
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)
Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates
a years. by
800
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Valio After
B years.
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291
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46 17 6
17 15
9.7 6
4 189
8 19
167 10-
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177 10
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68 15-
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8 17 0
480
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Is the Government to become a kindly matchmaker? sals the "Daily Express. Of all possible measures which the next Badges may include none will be more popular than the promised "wife allow ance." Sociogical experts are optimistic; they see in the proposal the beginning.
however small, of a greas State campaign in favour of marriage..
the new abatement will apply to men earning £700 a year. If this happens, thousands of men besides Welsh miners will have reason to be grateful to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The point to be remembered is that the great numbers of women who will be en franchised beft long will certainly seek to alter income-tax sccentricities.
If a man is to have a wife abatement why shoulda't a woman have a husband was asked freely. abatement " This was a question that
GERMANY UNMASKED.
TEN MILLION DEAD. -
In the couclading chapter of his book, Mr. Gerard writes :-
little
When I returned to America after ring for two and one-half years in the centre of this world calamity, every thing seemed potty and small. I was surprised that
that people could still seek After the War is over hundreds of little advantages, atill be actuated by Freed fesloaries and revenges. women will be helping to support their from the round of daily work, I felt for invalided soldier-husbands, remarked a "Up to now marriage has been penal. be adequate, and the women will have military autocrats hai brought upon the
suffragist. The man's pensions will not the first time the utter horror and use lessness of all the misery these Prussian ized. If this is the first step to State to earn money to keep the house going. encouragement of marriage it is to be In such cases the woman's taxation ought be in Germany some day when the world, and what a reckoning there will welcomed," said Miss Mary Macarthur to to be based as is her husband's. a. reportor.
unfair that The Joss to
to the State in such a case
case people realise the plain truth; when A man or wonen with heavy should be in the same position as the and the promise of
deal exemption bachelor without dependenta. The would make marriage
"It is obvious obligations of double exemption would not be heave they learn what best motive sotuated
Dasier
and happier
their rulers in condemning a
glaring anomalies of the present basis of for thousands of old service mer who eration of the earth to
their
income taxation cannot be removed by wish to marry but who do not care to piecemeal methods, but I am glad to see put too great a borden oo a step taken in the right direction."
"AT INJUSTICE."
fairly distributed."
the
wives."
A ROMANTIC CRÙISE.
SEARCH FOR THE HITACHI MARL.
bale
war and
have been so disturbed; that peacefu! Is it not a shame that the world should
men are compelled to lie out in the mud and flth in the depth of raw winter, shot at and stormed at and shelled, waiting for chance to murder some other facffensivo fellow creature 1. Why maat the people in old Poland die of hunger, not fading dogs enough to eat int the streets of Lemberg?
the
green.
Miss Macarthur pointed out, however, that it is an injustice to the hundreds of single men and women with family ob- ligations to assume that only the married man has dependents.
The long lines of broken peasants in Thousands of women and young men "the said. " 220 22
Serbia and in Ramanis; the population "are supporting or help port -lderly parents, delicate
of Belgium and Northern France tore ing to support. sisters, crippled brothers. If a man is to
from their homes to work as alaves for No buccaneering expedition of the the Germans the poor prisoners of war get abatement because he must support. an ablo bodied wife, a woman with Spain Main, to search for the gold of starving in their huts or working in fac parents to support should get a similar Captain Kidd was surrounded with mora tories and mines; the cries of the old and
the children wounded by abatement. The only really fair system of a spirit of adventure, danger and Zeppelins
from bony be the wails of
mothers for of taxation is to make a unit of
excitement than the sailing of the their sons; the very rustling of the air es family to tax on a household rather than on an individual basis, reckoned Chikozen Mare of the N.Y.K. line from the souls of the ten million dead sweep world-why All these
muist on the numbe of people in the family, Kobe on November 27 in search of to another
upon a fair
Barth In this way many hardships would be the missing Hitachi Mara, the N.Y.K. horrors come abolished, and burdens would be more European liner which has been missing are believed that love and help and gemina And science and com- Still, as a sign of wint is to come since September 24, when it left Colombo merce and religion and civilisation once rather than what is, the new menstre for Delagos Bay, South Africa, AT ruled 1 The very bodies of those ten should be popular. Many women on the "Japan Advertiser.”-
million killed, if placed end to end in two marrying have found their income-tax Provisioned for a cruise of many lines, would reach from New York to can increased; in some cases even quadru.
Francisco. Think of travelling this
dis double line of pled. If the State is at last realizing the months, armed with two big deck guns value of encouraging marriage, these for submarine attack, many rifles for tance between a
Corpse because absurdities
cause in the dark, cold, north- will doubtless, be removed the crew of 80, carrying two naval NE--The Investment may be any in time. Meanwhile, we must welcome arators and their plans and supply ern plains of Germany, there axists an of bombs, the Chikuzeni Mard presente autocracy, deceiving a great people multiple of 164. 3d. up to £387 10%.
the hearing ear
added Mies Macar the last werd in a search ship. The expoisoning their minds from one guners. hether the abatement in Lopedition was planned for a trip directly tion to another, and preaching the virtue to Colombo, a search across the Indian and necessity of war. And until that apply only to men earning aix pounds & Ocean, clear to the Cape of Good Hope, astocracy is either wiped out or made weeks or less. I certainly think it ought then up and down the African coasts powerlem they can be no peace on earth. to apply to professional mea earning and among the South Sea Islands Bat much more
the Anding by
fabermen off the coast of Ki
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THE £700 MAX At Somerset House the reporter was informed that this point was under consideration. Allowance for children where incomes do not exceed £500 was made in 1915-16, and in 1916-17 the limit increased to £700 The Board of Inland Hevenuo are at the moment dis- cussing the matter; it is probable that
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