TOWARDS THE MILLION GOAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1940, Page 8

TOWARDS THE MILLION GOAL

On the latest available returns, the national patriotic appeal has brought in £387,400. This shows encouraging progress towards the goal of a million. It represents the result of the first phase of the appeal, as the campaign is divided into two parts. While people are busy with Christmas and New Year trade, or their work for the appeal is broken by holidays, it is not expected that substantial additions will be made to the fund. Early in the New Year the campaign will be reopened with renewed vigour, and several of the provinces have already made preliminary plans for the special efforts then to be put forth. The fund should be greatly helped by the evidence now being received of the value of the work done for the soldiers in the field. Major-General Freyberg's warm appreciation of the parcels sent to the troops under his command expressed the feelings of all soldiers who share in this distribution of comforts. Under the trying conditions of desert service the men will need more than ever the things that the patriotic fund provides. If an appeal were made direct to the citizen from the soldier we do not doubt that the citizen would cheerfully give his last cigarette to the man on active service. He cannot do this in practice, but he can by supporting the patriotic appeal assure a steady flow of well-chosen comforts for the soldier.