MR. FRASER'S APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 3

MR. FRASER'S APPEAL

BIG EFFORT REQUIRED*

The need for a supreme effort on the nart of the people to ensure that tne ?hird Liberty L§Sn of £35 000,000 was fully subscribed was emphasised last night by the Prime Minister .(Mr. Fraser), who expressed his confidence that, the amount required would be ° "The results to date have been excellent," he said, "but they will have to be even better than our best up to the present. lam sure the amount will be gladly subscribed-I have- confidence in the people of New, Zealand to provide the money for maintaining New Zealand's war effort at the high level of efficiency and achievement which it has attained during the last three years and ten months of war. We have obtained, and, I sincerely believe, deservedly, a high reputation i throughout the world. We must maintain it. And New Zealand is doing so in regard to the War Loan. No previous loan has ever been supported as this loan has been. It is receiving the united support of the people as a whole, and the country was never more united than it is at present in our war "It is abundantly clear, from the returns which the Reserve Bank has had from all over New Zealand, that the people as a whole are responding to the call in a wonderful manner," continued Mr. Fraser. "We have had inquiries from members of the Armed Services in Samoa and other Pacific Islands and in the Middle East to provide facilities whereby they may on-