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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25010, 28 September 1944, Page 7

"LEND TO THE LADIES DAYTOMORROW Tomorrow, September 29, the combined women's organisations of Auckland will stage "Lend to the Ladies Day," which is one of the final great Victory Loan appeals to be run in Auckland. It takes the form of a street appeal, and will be under the direction of the Mayoress, Mrs J. A. C. Allum. There will be 29 stalls in the city, and you can buy Victory Loan Bonds in any quantity in £l, £lO and £IOO denominations This Victory Loan is lagging simply because we New Zealanders haven't displayed the backbone of our fighting forces. We seem unable to see things through to a victorious finish A "half-pie" job is what we are heading for right now. We are afraidafraid to invest our money and get a good return from it —we ought to be ashamed to admit it, but theres the truth We could, if we iked, make "Lend to the Ladies Day a recordbreaking day iu Auckland's great Victory Loan appeal. Are the citizens Auckland going to do. thisor will those who are dodging their obligations prefer to write to a New Zealand prisoner-of-war, or a sick or wounded fighting man in one of our hospitals overseas and say that in the ereat Victory Loan anneal many thousands of New Zealanders were afraid to measure up? Is that to be the answer, or can we write in wide and say, "The Victory Loan was a great success-it was over-sub-scribed " It is up to everybody to investto the limit i«| the.Victory Loan T)nn't leave it to the few. By investi„B in the Victory Loan » citizen to support them. Aavi