NATIONAL SAVINGS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 24 December 1945, Page 4

NATIONAL SAVINGS

N.Z. CHAIRMAN’S THANKS Writing to the Nelson National Savings Committee the chairman of the New Zealand Committee (Mr T. N. Smallwood) advised that up to November this year’s National Savings deposits in the Dominion totalled £7,160,078, making the total from 1940 until 15th November 1945, £37,945,374. There were 8419 savings groups, with 177,328 accounts. The total number of savings accounts was 476,581. “This letter—our last for 1945 brings with it special greetings for our first peace-time Christmas,” wrote Mr Smallwood. “The New Zealand National Savings Committee trusts that the joys of the approaching festive season will be deepened by the knowledge that the years of ‘blood and tears' are behind and that we look towards an horizon lighten by the dawn of peace. All the possibilities which peace brings in its train are ours provided our spirit of co-operation can match that of the years just past. “As we look back, this year has, from a National Savings point of view, not been an easy one, complicated by new problems arising fron. a sudden ending of hostilities, but it has nevertheless been an outstanding one in the results achieved by National Savings Committees.

“Thank you once again for your loyal and enthusiastic service during the pa-4 year. The New Zealand Committee is deeply appreciative of tlv great team which has done such a wonderful National Savings job in this country.”