LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

Southland Times, Issue 25334, 10 April 1944, Page 8

LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

SAVING FOR THE FUTURE

SENIOR. SECTION —PRIZE— Providing the war is over by 1947, I should have in my National Savings Account the sum of £26/5/-. I bank my money weekly at my school savings bank,,and when I have collected £l, I transfer it into my National Savings account at the General Post Office. My idea is not altogether to save for the future, but to help the Army, Navy, and Air Force to win the war. If this world war is over at the time I have mentioned I will be thirteen years of age, and hope to be going to secondary school, when my expenses will be a great deal heavier. The money that I have saved will then be very useful. I will have outgrown my juvenile bicycle, which will be ready for replacement by that time. Once I am fitted out with bicycle, books and ■ clothes, I don’t suppose there will be much left. Sometimes I can feel the squander bug getting busy and I would sooner spend my pocket money on comics or ice-cream, but I give myself a dig and say, “Hey you, there’s a war to be won.” —Prize of £1 National Savings Bond to John Wren, aged 10, Std. 4, Middle School. —PRIZE— After the war is won and peace has returned to our shores my National Savings account will be a very valuable asset. With it I will be able to buy many things that are at present off the market. It will help me when I leave school if I wish to purchase some books to help me in my studies. When the time comes for me to set up my own home, or my own business, I shall be able, if need be, to fall back on my National Savings account. There are many other ways in which my National Savings account will help me in future life. With it I shall not only be able to buy books, but will buy my own clothes since one cannot always depend on one’s parents for money to buy wearing apparel. Then I shall have to buy my food, and food costs money. Once again I shall be able to fall back on my National Savings account. So, taking everything into consideration, my National Savings will be a very great help. —Prize of 10/- National Savings Gift Coupons to Thomas G. Butson, aged 12, Form 2, Roslyn Bush school. —PRIZE— Saving for the future is something every boy and girl should do. Although money is necessary to bdy things which we all like, we should all put away regularly some small sum,, then when the time comes to buy something which calls for more money, we will have it on hand to spend. Some years ago the Post Office Savings accounts were introduced at our school so that at an early age children would be taught the habit of saving money. This lesson was begun in peacetime, because saving money is necessary even when there is no war on. During the war period we continue to save, but instead of leaving our savings idle in the bank, we lend them to our country in the form of National Savings, and then our Government can use that money to help win the war. After the conflict is over and won, we will be able to use our savings to buy many of the things which are not available now. By not spending our money on unnecessary things we help the war effort, but when peace comes and the many necessary commodities are again with us, we will be able to spend extra, and thereby help to bring prosperity back to our land. Money can be made to work for us in war-time to help bring peace, and when peace is here our National Savings will be helpful in many ways. We will be able to help one another to prosperity. Parents will be able to send their children to the university for further education, or to set them up in business. We will also help our country to prosperity by buying New Zealand-made goods. There .are none better. —Prize of 5/- National Savings Gift Coupon to Mary Duncan, aged 14, Form 4, St. Mary’s School, Gore. junior - section —PRIZE— This is why I am going to save National Savings stamps. I am saving Na-

tional Savings stamps to help the soldiers who are in the war. There are thousands of boys and girls in all parts of New Zealand buying National Savings stamps. I have just started to save and I have six stamps in my book. When I grow up I am going to be a school teacher. By the time I am old enough the money I am saving by buying National Savings stamps will be very useful, besides helping the war effort. When I have filled my book I am going to take it to the Invercargill Post Office to buy a one pound bond. —Prize of £1 National Savings Bond to June Tatham, aged 9, Std. 2, Waituna School. —PRIZE— I am saving the money in my National Savings account, for after the war I will need it. When I leave primary school I hope to go to the Gore' High School where I shall begin learning how to be a carpenter. My savings will then help to buy my High School uniform, my books and other necessities. Later, on leaving High School, I may be apprenticed to an experienced carpenter to learn the trade. I will need the money in my National Savings account to buy the tools. If ever I wished to start up my own business, once again my national savings would help me, for I would then need some more money. —Prize of 10/- National . Savings Gift Coupon to Desley McGregor, aged 9, Std. 3, McNab School. —PRIZE— I would like to be a music teacher, so my National Savings will help my mother to pay for my lessons as well as my examination fees. My daddy is a soldier, so our National Savings will buy him many little comforts he has missed while helping to win the war. Mother looks after my teeth, and if I spend money on sweets instead of National Savings, there would be big dentist bills to pay. I like reading, so when the good books come in again I will be able to buy the ones needed for my education. Yes, I think National Savings is a very good way to save our money. —Prize of 5/- National Savings Gift Coupon to Glenese Peterson, aged 8, Std. 2a, Gore School.

My dear Cousins, Today you see in our Chronicle the prize essays for the competition “Saving for the Future.” The prize-winners in the senior section were: John Wren, aged 10, Std. 4, Middle school; Thomas G. Butson, aged 12, Form 2, Roslyn Bush school; Mary Duncan, aged 14, Form 4, St. Mary’s school, Gore. The junior section-winners' were: Jurfe Tatham, aged 9, • Std. 2, Waituna school; Desley McGregor, aged 9, Std. 3, McNab school; Glenese Peterson, aged 8, Std. 2, Gore school. My congratulations to these boys and girls, and my thanks to the many entrants for the competition. While the schools are closed over Easter there can be no results in our National Savings Campaign, but more will come to hand as soon as the schools re-open. I must leave some space in our columns for the prize entries, so this must be a short letter. All the usual competitions are being held over until next week. Your loving

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