VICTORY LOAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 130, 4 June 1945, Page 6

VICTORY LOAN

£9,247,000 NEEDED

ONLY TWELVE DAYS LEFT

With only 12 calendar days to go before the closing of the Victory Loan, there still remains £9,247,000 to get to complete the appeal for. £25 000 000. Saturday's cash subscriptions totalled £21,857, of which £22,140 was redeemed promises. The total in hand is now £15,752,591. . The district positions show little change, the percentages being:—Wellington, £2,743,954, • 74; Southlana, £861,700, 68; Taranaki, £617,015, 6b; North Otago, £159,055, 66; Auckland, £3,804,961, 65; Wairarapa, £254,286, 65; South Canterbury, £380,620, 64; Wanganui, £497,045, 63; Northland, £275,441, 61; Otago, £1,357,165', 60; Gisborne-East Coast, £262,262, 60; Hawke's Bay, .£580.538, 60; Manawatu, £637,156, 58; Nelson, £303,729, 58; Thames-Bay of Plenty, £315,564, 57; Waikato-King Country, £762,960, 56; Marlborough, £141,123, 55; Westland, £179,674, 54; Canterbury, £1,565,215, 53; Buller, £53,148, 51. FAMOUS AIRMAN'S APPEAL. Wing Commnader Crawford Compton, of the R.A.F., now visiting the Dominion, is probably the most, decorated of New Zealand airmen. He mentioned in an address last night that when the evacuation of Dunkirk took place everyone on the aerodrome was issued with weapons for its defence. These, said the airman, consisted of last-war bayonets tied to broom-sticks, "and what exactly we were supposed to do with them if the parachutists came was never explained to us." Wing Commander Crawford Compton described how Britain had increased its agricultural production by 70 per cent., and by careful distribution of food through the rationing system . reduced imports by 50 per | \ cent., and thus saved shipping for war use. New Zealand, in addition to participating actively in the campaign against the Japs, was called upon to send large supplies of food to the | Pacific fighting forces. "This," he continued, "can only be successfully accomplished by work and money, and when the people of New Zealand are called upon to finance a loan for the purpose of seeing the job through, they should not hesitate, because New Zealand is coming out of the war as a country practically unscathed. We have made great sacrifices in men. Casualties on a population basis are probably the heaviest in the world, but other countries have suffered heavily in this direction, and in addition have to face the rebuilding of their cities devastated by the bombings of the enemy. Then there are the losses of the civil population. New j Zealanders live in the most favoured,; country in the world, and on this'occasion will respond to the appeal to fill the War Loan.