QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 29 September 1944, Page 2

QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN

SHARE IN VICTORY LOAN (Special to “Mail”) Wellington, This Day. The women of New Zealand who have made splendid contributions to their country’s war effort both in the services and in patriotic work were asked last night by the president of the National Council of Women, Miss M. G. Havelaar, to also do their full part in making a success of the Victory Loan. “My message to every woman who may be listening to me,” said Miss Havelaar, “is this—What have you contributed to the providing not only of the comforts for our men but of the necessities? Have you as yet only given of your superfluity or have you shared with them your necessities? “Some there are who have paid more than gold and silver. They have given their nearest and dearest, their sons and their husbands. To them I would say: ‘Subscribe to this loan not only in memory of him who fought to give us peace but as a continuation of the job he made his own and for which he gave his life.’ ” Miss Havelaar answered those who suggest that the responsibility is the Government’s. Her reply was: “The Government administers the country for you and me.” The women of New Zealand would, she added, give generously. They would spent themselves in making clothes, in baking and cook, ing, in getting up sales of work and entertainments for the fighting forces. They should also see that their sons and husbands did not go short of vital equipment, of all medical help and all support moral and physical. Then when the war was over they should help in the rehabilitation which these splendid men so richly deserved.