LENDING FOR VICTORY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1941, Page 6

LENDING FOR VICTORY

Zealand soldiers are fighting their way through the Western Desert in one of the greatest and most critical actions of the war. At the same time the Government is making an appeal to everybody not in the firing line to do something to keep those men supplied with the munitions which they so urgently need, and will need for many a long day to come, by lending every penny that can be spared from the Tha°t lU f!fnH S S!fJ S^ f lif ® tl l e ? tete Ixl the form of National Savings. fund should be growing by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately it is not, and Auckland s contribution to it is especially poor. Fifteen thousand pounds a week is the minimum that should be contributed here It is the province that that sum is not even remotely approached and that two out of every thcee wage-earners have not offered even a sixpence. Some glibly excuse themselves by suggesting that the banks companies and so on should find the money® If thosl critics as , much > Proportionately to their earnings, as the bi?instK I™ have done during the war years there would be no need for an aPPeal, sufficient would have come in to supply our troops with all the clothing boots, guns and munitions they itTA suggest that somebody else should go to the war or find the funds for those who go, but those who take refuge in such flimsy excuses for not co-operating, while accepting the safety and our overseas provide, are utterly unworthy of that freedom Tt ic thi. Jw 9 .everybody to help. PleMy of money m'SHi found for totallsator—every successive race meeting showsTnew rSd-Sr for various other forms of pleasure-seeki»e yet when thp Pnvommont „ j the National Savings Fund committees combine to appeal for a reasonable measure of help for our fighting men they are allowed to plead almost <u Y • » ls . n °l" as if they were asking for something for nothing ah that is lent will be repaid, and with interest. The saving will iif itself help to keep down prices and to check inflation Assistant tr. tvlli is a national duty. A multiplicity of small contribution! is^thennV™^ n< ? by which sufficient will be raised, and remeXrTg tht everv earner should contribute as freely as he possiblv can tn thl g Savings Fund now and every week until is won National