GOODS AND SERVICES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14165, 16 August 1916, Page 7

GOODS AND SERVICES.

LEND MONEY TO TEE STATE.

'An announcement 'by the Natioaal War Savings Committee in Britain states:— "The supreme need of the country is for goods and services"for-v.aging war, and everybody who utilises unnecessarily goods or services at the present time ib most certainly prolonging the 0011-' flict, and thereby endangering the lives' of his fellow-citizens. ...

"If users of petrol, for instance, would consider tho amount of ino>7orcent and handling which is necessitated before the petrol t-:rives at their garages, the committee foel confident that all would reduce their consumption to an absolute -minimum.

"The same iray be snid of the clothes wo wear and of the food we eat. It is the oieatior. and movement of these goods, and the service-.; which iheir creation and movement demand, which i-i causing to-day a shortage of tonnage, delays at our clocks, congestion on our railways, and consequent innumerable difficulties in the handling of war material for ourselves and cur Allies.

"df money for the purpose of the, war there is more than enough in thisj country, if those who have it will spend' only what is absolutely necessary forj liealth and efficiency, and lend the bal-j jsnee to the" nation. The committee .would appeal especially to those who are living in an atmosphere of prosperity, which is partly false, to try and realise what an appalling responsibility that very prosperity carries with it, inasmuch as,"but for the sacrifices of life and liirib continually being made by our forces or land and sea., this measure of prosperity could not exist for a single day. Many civiliaiis: watch our regiments 'leaving for the front, and wonder when they will come back, aad of what kind will be their Lome-com-ing. \Vhat all need to realise is that by 1 dispensing with unnecessary goods and services they contribute not only tcwards the efficiency of our fighting forces, but towards the chances of th^ir earlier'return.

"Thei'e io no hardship in postponing needless expenditure till the, war is over and in lending money to the State at a high rate of interest. Riglfcly regarded, economy and saving rare the privilege, not the penalty, of patriotism." ■,

There will bo conipotiti«ns for decorated motor cars and other vehicles on Diyffodil Day, the most of them for children. * Further offers of special prizes were received.

Mrs Crawford reported that the City I Council would grant- the xiso of ■ the Council Chamber for Mr A. E: Tasker's exhibition and sale of choice blooms on Daffodil Day. The auction sale of these is to take place at about 4 o'clock.

Mrs Pogson, Mrs F. C. Smallbone, and Jliss Cowan will take charge of the sale of assorted cut blooms on Daffodil Day.

It was announced that arrangements had l>oeu made with tho Misses Gilkison- and the' Union Jack Rooms for afternoon tea, on Daffodil Day. Further provision will also bo made for this department, so as to cope- with the ex-pec-tecl demand.

An entertainment will be held in the evening of Daffodil Day. • Mr B. H. Moller was authorised to canvass for gifts for raffles He' stated that Mr A. Miller iaaci promised a plant stand, and that Mr E. Plackbnrn would give 10 per cent, of the takings at his plant stall at the show.

The diphtheria epidemic was referled to as follows by tho chairman of the Hawke's Bay Education Board ,Mr J. H; Sheath) in a .report to- the Board;—" The schools reported closed last month have all re-opened. Dr. Paterson,* the Department's Medical Inspector, has with the assistance of Inspector Gardiner, takeu in hand the matter of checking the epidemic as fiar as the schools are concerned. Their efforts have apparently been Micccssful as cases are now very"rare."

A feeling of sympathy and admiration for the little^ country of Belgium, and warm appreciation of many Jdn.-r actions at Cairo for the New Zealam and, in mtmy instances, Wanganui soldiers, by Madame Foirz, resulted iv a very large attendance at the Druids;' Hall, Wanganui, when a cordial welcome v.as extended to this Belgian.:lady visitor. There were over 600 i>eople present (says the ''Ohronicje'l), a nunber which irclx'ded rßprescntativos of local bodies, prominent citizens, representatives of religious denominations, and, as might be expected on such an occasion, many parents and relatives of local men in the Expeditionory Force:..