APPEAL BY R.S.A.

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24354, 5 September 1944, Page 6

APPEAL BY R.S.A.

“THE TOUGHEST JOB IS AHEAD ” (P.A.) WELLINGTON. September 4. “The Dominion executive of the New Zeeland Returned Services’ Association has issued an official appeal to its members and all former servicemen urging them to support the 1944 Victory loan,” states the National War Loan Committee. “The reasons given apply equally well to us all.” The appeal of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association states;— "The papers are full of good news. The future is bright with promise. Millions of people think it’s all over bar the shouting—but you know different. Every former serviceman knows that the toughest job is ahead of us; the smashing of the enemy on their home ground. “Think back to your own war experience. Remember the supplies you saw pouring through rail heads in 1918, the shell dumps, the comforting batteries that moved up under cover of night. They were the things that helped you to win your objectives and hold them. To-day supplies are. of even more importance to our men overseas. Eveb the ‘P.8.1.’ is largely mechanised and they’ve got to have aeroplanes, tanks, munitions, and other supplies, multiplied beyond the power of imagination.

“That’s why we appeal to you now to invest in the 1944 Victory Loan. Perhaps you have bought them before. Then, because of all you know and are, make a still bigger purchase. The bond that will do the most good is the bond that you think you cannot afford. “Perhaps you have sons or daughters who can save. Help them to see their duty as clearly as you have always seen yours.

“When all is said and done, who can be the worse for having money tucked away and earning interest ready for when it’s all over, and who should know it better than you?”