NATIONAL SAVINGS DISCUSSED

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24095, 3 November 1943, Page 5

NATIONAL SAVINGS DISCUSSED

g WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS I MEET I “You are not asking anyone to give I money or even to lend it; you are encouraging them to make an investment that will earn compound interest,” said Mrs Cecil Wood, president of the Genera] Service Corps, when speaking on the sale of national savings stamps at > a meeting of representatives of e women’s organisations, convened by e the Mayoress, Miss E. Couzins, and held in the City Council Chambers yesterh dav afternoon. Mrs Wood said that i; about six months ago members of the ■( General Service Corps, a women's 5 voluntary organisation, undertook to - sell national savings stamps from door-to-door. They had made a success of it. they beg_an with 20 sellers and they now had 75, and they sold stamps to the value of £llO each week. It was now felt that this work could be greatly extended; many vomen were e anxious to save a small sum weekly, to provide for the future and at the ) same time to help the war effort. But s many with young children could not 1 spare time to go to a post office and i they welcomed the house-to-house • seller of stamps. She asked fo. the help ■ of other women’s organisations in this 1 important patriotic work. i “If all save a little each week, we shall have less debt when the war is s over and there will be less taxation ima posed upon returned men." said Miss - Couzins. who presided. [) The chairman of the National Savings Committee, Mr J. L. Hay, outlined . methods of national saving adopted in g England and Australia, and said that s the buying of national savings stamps would help to encourage the old is fashioned virtue of thrift amongst ii young people and enable them to acn cumulate some money “that would r help to cushion the shocks that they i. will undoubtedly meet after the war." t hints, showing the value , ot thrift, would sOon be screened in the schools. Several sellers of national savings p stamps said that the work was pleasant ’ and interesting. The meeting passed the following f resolution: y That this meeting of delegates from - Christchurch women’s organisations i commend the members of the Women’s General Service Corps for the excellent if work they are doing in selling national s war savings stamps and that the deler Sates present at this meeting pledge themselves to do everything possible y 10 encourage the members of their reh spective organisations to take up this g very important war work." Those will- ,, :ng. to sell stamps were asked to send i their names and addresses to the honIs General Service Corps. ’ u Hereford street, and to mention in n whlch streets they would prefer to sell. e )l is LAND ARMY IS IS ’ .. ismee the spring of 1942 weekly sunli P^ les °f vegetables grown by the n Women s Voluntary Land Army have e been given to the Mayor’s Social Serl( Vice Centre, which distributes them e neec| y families and invalidity e I™ °j° age pensioners, to the Society i- Protection of Women and 0 children, to the Salvation Army (Sail 2 iar , lta cP ‘•apartment) and to the Genn afvL S th rvice * C °J™ which ' turn, gives them to the dependants of solc «nr2Lf n u a ™.- These facts are res corded by the distributor (Mrs V R ■ banks) m the annual report of the ; Women s Voluntary Land Army preat f^e ann ua.l meeting last r night. t The report supplies details of an 3 amazing quantity of vegetables grown • at tn. e Bealey avenue garden, directed r by Mrs E Cameron Smith, at the Abberley garden in charge of Miss Ara ? Wilson, at the Botanic Gardens plot, under Mrs D Wagner, and at the Bowenvale plot, at which the joint 1 leaders are Mrs S. Bates and Mrs E 3 Robertson - Other activities reviewed in the rer P° r i 3D account of the successr i- ®, eans for Britain" campaign supplied by Miss A Scott, and Miss Anne e Macfarlane’s report of the work done . by the nine members of the Land ; Army who undertake the delivery of . milk for a large firm. Miss Jean Hol- ;• derness -eports on the monthly church y parades and Betty McConnel on the Land Army Club. These reports and the statement of receipts and expendi- , ture ' which showed a credit balance. ! were presented at the annua] meeting of the Women’s Volunteer Land Armv held in Harmony Hall last night Among those present were the Mavor--1 ess (Miss E. Couzins) and Mr and Mrs J. S. Barnett Anpreciation of the • value of the vegetables was expressed by representatives of different organisations in the city. Miss M. McLean presided, and after the meeting enterj tamed the members and visitors at , supper. ENGAGEMENT, The engagement is announced of « Sub-Lieutenant Peter Brian Austin ■ R.N.Z.N.VR.. eldest son of the Rev 1 H. W. and Mrs Austin, Collegiate School. Wanganui, and Ruth Naomi. , youngest daughter of Mrs Nat Woods ! and (he late Mr Nat Woods. Christj church. WOMEN’S DIVISION OF k I FARMERS’ UNION I I Christchurch.—The monthly meeting of , the Christchurch branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union was held • in the Plunket rooms. Mrs R. W. Wornall presided. Mrs Le Brun gave a recital ; of Hebridian folk songs with Mrs H. j Kerr as accompanist. Competitions resulted as follows:—thrift article: Mrs ’ Wornall 1, Mrs Lund 2. Large bloom: Mrs Chapman 1, Mrs A. Soanes 2. Small „ bloom: Mrs Lund 1, Mrs Mllvvard 2. Hostesses were Mesdames Pearce. Hollo, and McDonald. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE Burwood.—Mrs Billcliff presided at the October meeting of the Burwood Women’s Institute. A letter was read from a member of the armed forces in Egypt, in appreciation of a parcel he had received from the institute. Generous contributions to the leper fund were handed In. The winning sponge in the competition, made by Mrs Compton, was sold. Competitions resulted as follows:—jam sponge, Mrs Compton 1, Mrs Windus 2. Mrs Cade 3; small bloom, Mrs Billcliff 1, Mrs Partridge 2, Mrs Munson 3; large bloom, Mrs Compton 1, Mrs Windus 2, Mrs Lingard 3; darning, Mrs Munson 1. Mrs Windus 2. Mrs Compton 3. Planting of Eucalyptus Trees.—A suggestion that the foreman should inspect the county with a view to ascertaining where eucalyptus trees could . be grown was made by Cr, S. J. Vogan , at a recent meeting of the Akaroa County Council. The foreman said he i did not favour growing trees on the ■ roadsides. This had been done, and I they had proved a danger when they J had fallen across the road. The council decided that only unused road re- i serves were suitable for planting, or ] unused portions of cemetery areas or < ground set aside for recreation pur- i poses. It was decided to ask the fore- i man to report on the suitability of such areas. \ •*** i c That no new coupons for wool I should be made available to purchas- f ers for at least another three months, i to give those who had not had the c opportunity of using their E coupons a a chance of procuring their ration of 8 wool, was the text of a motion passed S at the Housewives’ Union last evening, i It was also decided to write a letter - to the Rationing Controller (Mr J. E. Thomas) asking that white or light wool be released to mothers of children A up to five years of age, as the price of small children’s garments had become 1 so high. A cable message from London last t night announced the, death of Mrs s Pamela McKenna, who was killed i when she fell from a train between Guildford and London. Mrs McKenna’s husband, the Rt. Hon. Regi- - nald McKenna. P.C., chairman of the Midland Bank. Ltd., since 1919, died last month. Mrs McKenna, who was married in 1908, was a daughter of the late Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll, f K.C.M.G., and sister of Lady Freyberg. a i She had one son. H