URGENT APPEAL MADE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 88, 24 January 1942, Page 6

URGENT APPEAL MADE

BINOCULARS AND TELESCOPES. GIFT, LOAN OR SALE SOUGHT. WELLINGTON, This Day. In a nation-wide campaign launched to-day an urgent appeal is made for binoculars and telescopes for the use of the armed forces. These are most urgently required, ancl the public :s urged to give, lend or sell them to the Defence Department’. It is recognised that in many cases binoculars and telescopes are treasured possessions, perhaps having sentimental as well as intrinsic value; but in making them available for the national cause the owners will surely find special satisfaction. Orders for the numbers required have been placed overseas, but it may be some time before supplies come to hand, and it is because binoculars and telescopes are urgently required that the appeal is launched. Supporting the appeal the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) said he was sure that once the need was made known these instruments would be forthcoming from patriotic citizens. They might be presented, he said, as a straight-out gift, as a loan for the duration pf the'war, or might be sold to the Department at a valuation by an expert trade valuer,'but they should be taken or sent to the nearest post office, where a receipt would he issued. Mr Jones said he entertained no doubt- that the appeal would be successful, and in view of the urgency of the matter he would ask that action be tpken without delay.