VICTORY LOAN DAY

Southland Times, Issue 25670, 12 May 1945, Page 3

VICTORY LOAN DAY

APPEAL TO OPEN ON MONDAY (Special) WELLINGTON, May 11. “We have celebrated VE Day, and now comes another occasion of note for New Zealanders. Monday is Victory Loan day, when the campaign starts for the purpose of raising the £25,000,000 of the 1945 Victory Loan,” states the National War Loan Council. “As this is a national effort, it will be inaugurated with a national ceremony centred on the Parliament Building’s steps, but made nation-wide by linking it up with the whole of the Dominion through the national chain of radio broadcasting stations. The proceedings, which start at 12.30 p.m., can, therefore, be followed throughout New Zealand, and an appeal is made to employers that they should facilitate group listening by their employees during the lunch hour on Monday. The programme, with a comparatively brief period for speeches, will have many attractive musical items. The band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is to provide accompaniments for a choir of 500 children from Wellington’s secondary schools, and this effective musical combination will join Miss Ena Rapley in the stirring English song ‘Land of Hope and Glory’.

“The National War Loan Council hopes that this will be a listening opportunity for thousands of groups of factory employees, and that they will decide at that moment to organize their own Victory Loan effort, fixing an objective and informing their district loan committee of the help they propose to give.”