"SAVE THE PENNIES."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 9 June 1916, Page 4

"SAVE THE PENNIES."

IMSSONS IN THRIFT.

Two series of illustrations in one of the last numbers of the Times' Hi*- | tory of the \v ar are most interesting as representing: phases of the life of nation, in the first place a small section of the great financial burden Britain has" to bear, and, in the second, a method of teaching the youngsters how to take their share in the redemption of the "silver bullet," which, as has been aptly said, fs going to win the war. One series shows the transport, along the streets of New York of ten million pounds in English N gold, en route to the American Treasury. The other depicts the children in the public schools of London being encouraged to bring their pennies to school to be invested in war loan debentures. On a blackboard the teacher has written this significant sentence: ''One hundred pennies earn 4*d a year, and means VICTORY." It is significant-of the financial strain being put upon the | Empire, apd teaches a lesson that might with .advantage be copied in the overseas Dominions, where at present conditions are good—better in many cases than before the war a but where great burdens will have to be met in . the near future. No better way could be taken to train the children in the methods necessary to enable them to assist than in so inculcating habits of thrift, and teaching them to take care, actually and really, of the pennies. | Not only will the actual savings be ] useful, but the gain in national thrift and jirudenee will be of incalculable Benefit in the future. Lessons truly learned in youth are rarely, if ever, forgotten.