Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941. NATIONAL SAVINGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 152, 9 April 1941, Page 4

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941. NATIONAL SAVINGS.

The Easter appeal In connection with the National Savings campaign is worthy of generous response by all members of the community. There is a special approriateness in the appeal at this time, for when the people of the Dominion are enjoying a holiday free from any thought of immediate danger and desolation they will assuredly remember with kindly thoughts the men from New Zealand who are now facing unknown dangers overseas and they should also bear in mind the hardships that their kinsfolk in Britain are bearing with such fortitude. Thus an extra effort to increase the war fund of the Dominion will be at once a practical tribute to the' New Zealand soldiers, sailors and airmen, and an earnest of sincere gratitude that we have been spared the horrors that afflict the war zone. It cannot be too often emphasised that any deprivation or discomfort that we may be called upon to bear is as nothing against what the people of Europe are suffering and will have to suffer before peace is restored. Not only our kinship with the people of Britain and our indebtedness to the Motherland for individual rights and privileges derived from her, but also common humanity, demand that in this struggle of‘ right against evil we should spend ourselves and our substance in the prosecution of the war. This consideration should ensure not merely a special contribution to the war fund during Easter but also an increasing support in ; the future. The national savings scheme has one commendable feature that would be impossible in totalitarian countries, where savings would be confiscated to meet the nation’s needs. Every investor in the fund is actually making a personal saving. The only difference between the ordinary Post Office Savings system and the National scheme is that in the ( first- case the deposits are ' at call whereas in the other the amount is fixed for five years. In connection the scheme has a commendable aspect quite apart from any relation to the war. The habit of saving, once acquired, may be established to the lasting benefit of the individual.