The State Loan. Sir Conan Doyle's £2000
The State Loan is an article written published in The Daily Mail (Brisbane) on 10 january 1921.
The State Loan
Sir Conan Doyle's £2000
"A Good Investment."
In the course of conversation with a representative of "The Daily Mail" yesterday. Sir A. Conan Doyle intimated that he intended to invest £2000 in the Queensland loan. It appealed to him, he said, as a good investment — though possibly it would not return as much to an Englishman as to an Australian — and a further consideration was his desire to assist the outposts of Empire in any way he possibly could.
REQUEST TO INTENDING SUBSCRIBERS.
As has always been the case in previous loans, many people have made up their minds to invest some of their sayings, but for various reasons they do not wish to lodge their applications until the last week or so. This, of course, is quite in order, but the loan organiser specially requests that such firms and individuals should inform him of their decisions so that an estimate of the probable results of the campaign can be blamed before the closing date. Wherever possible, it is asked that actual applications be lodged without delay, so as to save unnecessary congestion of work towards the end of the month.
One of the city organizing canvassers secured a £40 application in an unexpected way on Friday. He called on a well-known business manager, who suddenly recalled the fact that he had about £40 worth of the original issue of £1 War Savings Certificates stowed away in his desk. Feeling that he had completed his contract with the Commonwealth by holding these certificates well over the stipulated time, he immediately cashed them and invested the proceeds in the State Loan.
Through the courtesy of the Brisbane Tramways Company, Ltd., calico signs advertising the loan will be displayed on the front and rear of every tram car in the metropolitan area until the end of the campaign.
