LEND FOR VICTORY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4422, 7 May 1941, Page 5

LEND FOR VICTORY

NATIONAL SAVINGS ON ACTIVE SERVICE. MINISTER’S APPEAL. How the money contributed by the public, known as National Savings, “goes on active service just as much as to the soldier, the sailor and the airman,” was explained in an address by the Minister of Munitions, Mr Sullivan, who,appealed to his hearers to “lend and go on lending” as a means of drawing the war to a fitting conclusion. “In the main centres recently we organised parades of our defence and home service units,” he said. “Included in those parades were bren gun carriers, men wearing steel helmets, and so- on. Those articles are being made in our own workshops and factories. Your contributions to the National Savings Accounts helped and will go on helping, to make still more. In short, to the extent that you contribute to National Savings, to that extent will we be able to add to the production of munitions. “Throughout the country, workshops and factories are working at pressure—in some cases they are working a full 24 hours a day—and they are turning out the munitions and supplies essential for defence. Your national savings go on active .service there. I can assure you that a really worthwhile job is being- done. EXPANDING OUTPUT. “For months hundreds of thousands of bombs have been fabricated and finished. The work has been spread over the entire country. The engineering and other trades have been mobilized for service. National savings have helped. Countless thousands of .303 cartridges are being made. A new factory, equipped with up-to-date machinery, much of which has been made in New Zealand, is being erected to increase output further. A new factory annexe has also been established by the Government for filling bombs with explosives. National savings contributed to the cost. “The manufacture of trench mortars is going ahead steadily. MajorGeneral Russell told me how delighted he was that we are making these highly essential weapons in New Zealand. The placing of your money in a National Savings Account helps materially in t|his direction. .We are, thanks to the assistance of national savings, producing mortar bombs for these in hundreds of thousands. Work on high explosives and chemicals with which to fill the bombs is proceeding, and your national savings help to carry on that work. “Throughout New Zealand, factories and workshops are manufacturing cartridge clips, steel helmets, cordite containers, mess tins, gauges, water bottles. By the thousand and the tens of thousands they are steadily going forward. They will continue to go steadily forward if you come forward with your spare cash for national savings. “Our valiant soldiers overseas 'and at home are well shod, well dressed, well equipped. From our woollen mills and footwear factories, from our clothing factories, more and more equipment pours forth. By putting your money into a National Savings Account, you are helping to keep up the supply.

“We are undertaking the building of minesweepers for work around our New Zealand coast. Your contribution to national savings again goes ‘on active service’ there. Hundreds of different articles are being made and your money invested in national savings will help to maintain the flow. “National savings make munitions to carry on the fight for freedom. So here in New Zealand I ask . you to lend your money by investing it in national savings. Lend, to give our children and their children, security for the future. Save, and lend, to retain your spiritual, mental and physical liberty. We can set no financial limit in our contribution to prevent the complete ruin that would assuredly sweep over the world, if we do not hurl back the Nazi hordes. Lend then —and lend freely to provide the money to produce the munitions. Lend now —and go on lending. “Invest in national savings to ensure your own peace, safety and security. Lend to free the oppressed and the subjucated peoples of Europe. Lend to. restore sanity to the world. Failure to lend—a policy of ‘carry on as usual’—may only mean that you wish to purchase some luxury, some little extra comfort so doing you may be purchasing future enslavement, spiritual darkness, and a fate too awful to contemplate. “Remember, the more you lend, the more we can do to win the war. The more you lend the more will we be able to produce—more and still more munitions —more universal carriers, more Bren gun carriers, more bombs, more trench mortars and more small arms munitions, and more of the thousand and one things that help to make our fighting forces the efficient body of Which we are all justifiably proud.”