"THE HAT TRICK.”

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 4

"THE HAT TRICK.”

IT is a matter for gratification and congratulation that for the third week in succession, Te Awamutu has subscribed the qtiota of £483 allotted to it under the National Savings scheme. In cricketer’s parlance, “the hat trick’’ has been performed and fervent will be the hopes of all patriotic citizens that the blue flag will be unfurled mast-high at the local Post Office every week from this onward. The National Savings account, it is seasonable to observe, was opened because it was justly deemed desirable that a plan should be devised under which wage earners and others, who were not in a position that might justify their becoming subscribers to a war loan or without experience in the handling of scrip, should be enabled to make their contributions to the War Expenses Fund. Experience has proved that wage-earners and persons of limited means have welcomed the opportunity thus afforded them of making their direct contributions to the war account. The scheme furnishes, in short, the means by which people who are not liable for service with the Armed Forces may yet serve their country in its hour of danger. Viewed in this light it makes a clear appeal to everyone who is imbued with a strong sense of patriotism. The appeal should receive added force from the danger with which this Dominion is now confronted, necessitating, as it does, the calling of fresh groups of men to the colours and seriously increasing the commitments of the Government for war expenditure. The hour has struck, in fact, when a greater effort by the Dominion and by all classes of the community must be made. Te Awamutu during the last three weeks has over-subscribed its quota: let the good work be continued, remembering always that Silver Bullets help to win the war. The exceptional circumstances of the times should impress themselves on the public as justifying personal sacrifice —and actually no sacrifice is involved in a contribution to the National Savings account, as every payment to it bears interest at the current rate.