NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 May 1945, Page 4

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

£25,000,000 WANTED Wellington, This Day. This year’s war loan campaign will officially open with a public ceremony outside Parliament Building oil Monday,. May. 14, with an objective of £23,900,(HRJ to be reached in just over a month. "After a £40,000,000 success last year it might be assumed that New Zealanders could easily shoulder a much smaller investment this year as a patriotic duty,” states the National War Loan Council, "but members of campaign committees all over the country are taking no risks of a failure which would ’essen the prestige of the Dominion and be a discouraging thing to the fighting servicemen who. so far, have never been deprived of the finest possible weapons and supplies they have used so courageously and so successfully. "In the sixth year of the war. stored up reserves available for war loans must have been substantially turned into war loan scrip, but the country's current income has been greater than ever, and it is from this source that it is honed to draw most of the £23,000.000. Investment in the War Loan, whether by wav of stock, bonds or National .Savings accounts is everyone's war obligation. There are no difference* of opinion about Organization of Campaign. “Directing tile campaign is a National War Loan Council under the chairmanship of the governor of the Reserve Bank, and including in its membership the heads of almost all the Dominion's national organizations—the National war .Savings Committee, the Federation of Labour, the New Zealand Employers' Federation, the chairmen of the Counties’ Association and Municipal Asaocin tion, presidents of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, .the Associated Chambers of Commerce, the New Zealand Farmers Union, the National Council of Women, and the Women's War Service Auxiliary, as well as the heads of large financial institution* and the ckairitidfe of the Associated Banks. “This non-partisan organization has approved a plan of work and publicity which is being given life in every one ot the 20 postal districts of the country. Delegates from these areas met to discuss the practical arrangements and organized their local committees on the most representative basis to bring the war loan under everyone's notice, lie cause the 1043 Victory Loan is a 1945 war dutv for all who arc privileged to live and thrive in a country which, veterans of the New Zealand Division, just returned, have declared is the best little country in the world."