VICTORY LOAN

Evening Star, Issue 25494, 26 May 1945, Page 6

VICTORY LOAN

NEARLY £l4 MILLION SUBSCRIBED OTAGO DROPS TO SEVENTH PLAGE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 25. The Reserve Bank announced tonight that to-day's receipts had brought the total of the 1945 Victory Loan up to £13,940,790. The cash subscriptions during the day amounted to £302,212, including £39,115 of redeemed promises.

The amounts and percentages of objectives of the 20 war loan districts are now:—

GALL TO WOKEN VITAL INTEREST IN LOAH (Special.) . WELLINGTON, May 25. Because the bulk of the family budgeting is done by women they can give powerful support to the 1945 Victory Loan by determing what is to bo the family sacrifice for war financing states the National War Loan Council. Women are the chief spenders; it is the women of the household who mainly shoulder 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 of this (in relation to the resources of their own households) and also to 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, reminding us, however, that the women who have suffered most and those who have given most have been the wives and mothers of men overseas. " You," declared Mrs Nash, " have given more perhaps even than the men themselves. You have suffered, as women all over the world have suffered, in these past years. That cannot be forgotten. I am sure t 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. I wish we could have shared more of the hardships of women in other countries. I wish we could have taken more of the toad off the women of Britain and the women of Europe. I do not suppose we can ever realise what they have given.

'.Mothers of New Zealand," concluded Mrs Nash, " 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 finish off the war and to help the people who have suffered so much more than wo have. So let us put off buying something 'we want and invest the money we have saved in the Victory War Loan."

£. Per cent Wellington 2,487,735 67 Auckland 3,532,701 60 Southland ... ... 758,268 60 Taranaki 528,142 56 Wairarapa 218,436 56 South Canterbury 328,269 55 Otago 1,220,864 ■ 54 North Otago ... ... 130;703 54 "VVanganui 417,410 53 Hawke's Bay 490,449 51 Gisborne-East Coast 222,294 51 Marlborough .. 127,523 50 Northland 225,654 50 Waikato - • King Country ... ... 649,856 48 Nelson 247,404 47 Manawatu ... ... 520,499. 47 Westland 159,779 47' Thames - Bay of Plenty 256,287 47 Canterbury 1,370,624 46 Buller 47,899 46