Campaign For 250,000 National Savings Accounts

Northern Advocate, 16 June 1941, Page 2

Campaign For 250,000 National Savings Accounts

i In the course of an interview, the chairman of the National Savings Committee, Mr. T. N. Smallwood, indicated that the response to date to the appeal launched on Sunday of last week and given publicity over the air and in the newspapers, is most gratifying. During the past week, BCCO new accounts were opened, making a total of 132,000. The week’s figures are better than during any week for several months past, although not yet up to the high level reached in the earlier stages of the campaign prior to Christmas. The object of the National Savings Committee is to ensure a solid foundation foi the National Savings Movement in New Zealand by enlisting a minimum of 250,000 supporters. The opening of an account is the first step in each individual’s part of the-collective effort. To‘be effective, this must ba followed by regular contributions throughout the war period. A New Method Mr Smallwood intimated that one phase of the committee’s activities which it was anticipated would assist the campaign was the despatch to every householder in the Dominion of copies of the two simple forms required to enable an account to be opened. These were being forwarded under cover of a household circular, with a request that if the recipient already has an account he ensures that the forms are made use of by some other member of the community. As there are some 380,000 households in the Dominion, solid support to this appeal by completing the forms or ensuring that somebody else who has not an account completes them, would enlist the backing of a very large percentage of the people of the Dominion and indicate clearly that we as a nation are determined to play our part.