WOMAN'S PART

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 6

WOMAN'S PART

APPEAL TO HOUSEWIVES "Because the bulk of the family budgeting is done by women, they can give powerful support to the 1945 Victory Loan by determining what is to be the family sacrifice for war financing," states the National War Loan Council. "Women are the chief spenders. It is the woman of the household who mainly shoulders the tedious task of making ends meet. "It has been demonstrated by incontestable facts that New Zealand's national income is of record proportions, far in excess of the supply of goods to buy, and that every, class in the community shares in this great surplus of spending money. How much of that surplus is to go into the 1945 Victory Loan? The women of New Zealand are now asked to think this out in relation to the resources of their own households, and to also raise the question in the family circle as to whether enough is being done out of the wider resources controlled by the head of the family." The call to womanhood was repeated in an address by. Mrs. Nash, wife of the Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. As the representative on the National War Loan Council of the Women's War Service Auxiliary, Mrs. Nash gave full credit to her sex for their splendid work in the services, the hospitals, the factories, and on the land, pointing out, however, that the women who had suffered most, those who had given most, had been the wives and mothers of men overseas. "I am sure New Zealand women do not want any exaggeration about what they have done in the war, but I sometimes wish we had been asked to do more," said Mrs. Nash. "I wish we could have shared more of the hardships of women in other countries. Let us show our gratitude for having been spared the horrors of England and Europe. We must not spend money now that we do not need to. Our own production and the world's production must go first to finishing off the war, and to help the people who have suffered so much more than we have. So let us put off buying something we want, and invest the money we have saved in the Victory War Loan."