WAR SAVINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 245, 15 October 1940, Page 7

WAR SAVINGS.

PEOPLE or BRITAIN

British Official Wireless. RCGBY, Oil. 14. A call to the country by Sir Robert Kindersley. president of ihe National War Savings Committee, to raise at least £12.000.000 weekly between now and November 21 was dtKiiW as "a modest request"* by Mr. Aithur Greenwood. Minister without port folio, in a broadcast. "I believe,"' Mr. (inynwnnd said, "that it underestimates what can l»e subscribed if people put their back* into it." The first, year of the war savings campaign close* on November 21 next, and the call is for % further £80.000.0(10 to make the year's total of £473XM0j|»0 from subscriber* to savings certificates and defcnce bonds and deposits in the Post Office and trustee saving* banks. "I think," Mr. Greenwood said, "we ought to aim at a target of £->00,000,000. Let me ask you to visualise the power and si length of the 160,000 savings groups up and down i the country. They embrace 10.0«0,«*0 members, so that if each member saved 1 1/ a week it would add £-W,OOO to the weekly total. The sating* movement must grow* into an ever-broadening stream, if. during these critical times, we arc to make rniVt meet."*