HELP, FOR ENGLAND

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23319, 3 May 1941, Page 5

HELP, FOR ENGLAND

- —— ■■ * Sir,—Not long ago Mr Churchill ap«led to the British public -for all available men and- women,- -skilled-or unskilled, to speed up the war effort. #PJei;acently_it was stated that it was Inadvisable f or-anybody ToTb?T§Sked to dc* more"'than •56 ■ hours a week; From to assume that Britain- could* ;do with many more Workers,'felthef'3 for her, factories 1 or Use |6f her'i'flre-flghting:--services, etc. The war has how every appearance of beihl a long*'one. 'When victory is our?;; do wb want to see a victorious nation whose citizens have been crippled by endless. „over-work while flghtfor bur freedom, as well ’as their own?, iEhiphatihally no,;- I venture to suggest that we cai help, to lessen this In 0 small way. ' I would suggest that anybody who cared to volunteer should be allowed to gp Home to do . his bit. There_ are many volunteer?, who been turned down for oversea service on account of minor ailments who would be perfectly fit and willing to do anything that was demanded, of them at Home, New Zealand could still keep the dountry going ■ with a far smaller number of men,-if only everybody did £ little more. Meanwhile, even the {firemen-- of - England -gat overworked, lind slaughtered while many of us do (nothing here.—Yours, etc., F j I May J, IMI.