THE PROBLEM OF GIVING.
GIVING presents itself is a problem to most people, but it does appear at the moment that those who are in the lower-income: levels are doing much more relatively than those who are in the higher-income brackets in respect to contributions to the patriotic funds. The working man who is contributing a couple of shillings weekly toward a warsavings account is deliberately and voluntarily deferring his spending to that small extent, and is likely to feel the result of his action by a diminution of his own or his wife's wardrobe. When an artisan on an award wage makes a straight-out contribution of a few shillings to the war fund, he. immediately imposes upon his family and himself an immediate sacrifice of those things which are included in the class of goods which, by common consent, are termed "necessities." Those who are in the middle-incpme. groups have perhaps been the hardest hit of all, in that while their expenditures have been increased their incomes in too many cases have actually diminished, while their future prospects are not bright, to say the least. Those who ha,ve farming interests have, during th<> past four years, been in receipt of very favourable prices for their products, and it is to the credit of the farming community that its members have been very generous in their contributions to the patriotic funds', There has not been in the City area the same ready response to the appeal for fund's as has marked the effort in the country, but it is likely that those citizens in Whakatane whosejives have been crowned with success through the exercise of their unusual abilities, have felt that the time has not yet arrived to do in a marked degree much more than they usually do in the way of giving. Had the example of those w&ho have already given been more readily acknowledged, their opposite numbers in the City area would doubtless have felt that now is the acceptable time to make their contributions on a liberal scale. The long spell of the troqps in Egypt and the losses suffered by individual soldiers who were evacuated from Greece and Crete, has thrown a heavy strain upon patriotic funds, and in order that this strain shall be withstood it is desirable that the fund should be kept well supplied. Now is the time to make contributions, and the larger sums should now be contributed because they will make the management of the fund a much easier task.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 122, 27 June 1941, Page 4
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420THE PROBLEM OF GIVING. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 122, 27 June 1941, Page 4
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