WAR WEAPON WEEK

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 5

WAR WEAPON WEEK

— - - » —— - ** w* i ww a <i ai> BROMLEY CAMPAIGN. iPPEAL BY MR. W. J. JORDAN.] ; 0.C.) LONDON', February 24.i Bromley is an old town of Kent. but j > now a fashionable suburb of London, lot far l rom Bcckenham where wellnown New Zealaiuler> live. The Hiph ommissioner. Mr. W. J. .Tonlan. was nvited by the Mayor and Borough C'ounil of the town to <>]>en their \Y a r j i\ capons and National Savings Week.' t was a Saturday morninjr and the; nain thoroughfares were hum; with! mutiny and patriotic emblem*. 1 The Mayor, Mr. Lynch W at son. nave | he Hijrh Commissioner a hearty ollieiaii veleome at the Town Hall and intro-l lured Mr. Jor<lan t •> t lie ri\ie disni-l aries. amount them Dr. Kenneth: tapper, a New /Cealander, who lias for •omo years been Bromley's health ofli•er. I'rom the Town Hall Mr. Jordan .vent with the Mayor to a civic luncheon it the chief hotel in the town. At the op table were Sir IMward Campbell >Parliamentary Secretary t-> Sir Kinjrsey Wood, whom he and -aily Campbell. Brigadier Murjjatrovd 'an A ink lander). and Brigadier Whitelead (formerly A~~K;ant ( • tinnii--K»ner if the I.oikloii Metropolitan I'-dice). \bout 2.iil were pic-cnt. anion;; tliciii liany of the local branch of the Hume Juard. Tribute to Dominion. In introducing Mr. Jortlan. and lim to declare the War Weapons Week >pen. the Mayor said they were proud :o have with them the representative if the Dominion of New Zealand wlr.ch vas playing so enthusiastic and helpful i part in the war; proud also of "the toys' of that Dominion whom he repreented. Mr. Jordan thanked the Mayor and Bromley people for the invitation to >pen their War Weapons Week. Like nany present he was a man of Kent. iom at It was hard, he ■aid, to comc there to ask them to con - xjbute more to £riuiu',s war effort

ivhen everyone had done so much. HoL referred to the terrible bombing sus- ' ained by Ramsgate. Bromley also bore til the evidence of having had a bad t inio. Indeed, one could only be filled .vith the greatest admiration for the way ihe whole of Great Britain had stood up to trouble. Vet. apparently Bromley.' like other towns of Britain," wanted to! lo more. We believed we were "in it" not only for ourselves but for humanity.' All parts of Britain and the British Umpire were in it—Xew Zealand to tliej utmoc-t of her ability. She was in it t equally with Britain as part of theL British Kmpire. We were fighting to 1 ] defend our demoeralic freedom and all, ihe tilings in our national life which we ' held dear, and f<ir the to advance 1 lurther along the road of social • development. N.Z.'s War Contribution. Mr. Jordan gave the chief details of|' New Zealand's war contribution in men ] and food supplies, and of the wonderful)response "f the peop] e in war finance -ulvcript ion-, and to the appeal forj funds for comforts fur her soldiers. air-j men and sailors over-ear-, and for suf-'i ferers from enemy action in Britain and i allied countries. In Xew Zealand a loan 1 of £8,00(1.000 had been raised free ofi interest from little more than one and ' a half million people. In this War Weapons Week the jicople of Bn>inleyii were I lot a-ked to lend their money' intere-t-free, but at 3 per cent, which' provided a go<*l investment. He would -iy az:iin that lie knew all. from tt--po..rc-t to the well-provided for, were doing their be-!. ]»ut — anil he uj;t io people of hi- own miintr—■"•lf von •■an do ni'Tc. do it." He declared the Bromley appeal week open. It was a happy thought, said the chairman of the Appeal Committee, to a>k Mr. .Tordan to open their week. The gathering had proved a most happy one. He expressed to Mr. Jordan the warm thanks of Bromley. Brigadier Whitehead also expressed thanks to Mr. Jordan on behalf of the local Home Guards. Afterwards the High Commissioner went to the saluting point in front of the Town Hall and was present with the May or and Brigadier Whitehead when the latter took the salute as the loeal Home < .uai d and other military and civic units Biaxciie<l gd+i* _