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TO YOU!

AS OPES LETTER FROM THE PRIME MINISTER. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS’ SETTLEMENT LOAIf. ■ : ; > : To All My Fellow Citizens, — “The £6,000,000 five and a-half per cent. Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Loan, as its name implies, is Intended to supply the remaining funds required for repatriation and soldiers ' settlement purposes. It will, it is confidently expected, suffice to meet our obligations m connection "with the late war to the men who so nobly responded to the call of duty in the unprecedented crisis that then arose and who on the field of action upheld the honour and dignity of New Zealand, while defending the threatened liberties and free citizenship of the State against an unscrupulous foe pledged to its undoing.- It is- not necessary for me to stress the point that subscriptions to this Loan (the last of the war series), should be made as freely/and spontaneously as possible, even if in the subscription sacrifices are entailed. Th’e men for whose benefit it is being raised did not hestate when the call fop sacrifice came to them, and it is to their ready response and action in the time of national peril, that we owe our homes and liberties to-day. They took their lives in their hands; many of them have returned crippled and otherwise disabled from the war, while more than 16,000 made the supreme sacrifice and are numbered with our Glorious Dead, whose name liveth for ever more,” and whose example silently appeals to us. that while we should cherish their memories and care for their dependents, we should not overlook the claims of their fellows, who,, Ihaving in the order of Providence survived the fiery ordeal of battle, nave returned to us and have to be resettled in civilian life. The Loan itself is of the reproductive order, and eventually every nenny of the money subscribed will be returned to the State. It is offered on liberal terms, the security is good, the whole credit of the State is at its back and the duty of finding the money is incumbent upon us. The men in whose interests it is being raised are worthy of all the assistance we can give them, and while subscription has been made compulsory, 1 feel sure it will not be necessary to enforce the penalising clauses of the Act, which authorises its flotation. We want a quick response in the shortest possible time. I, therefore, earnest y commend the appeal which is now being made to you, and trust every citizen in New Zealand whose circumstances permit, will not tan to respond to the call of duty in the matter. (Sgd.) W. P. MASSEY.

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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 6

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TO YOU! Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 6

TO YOU! Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 6