NEW WAR LOAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 11, 2 October 1942, Page 5

NEW WAR LOAN

ORGANISING CAMPAIGN

LOCAL COMMITTEE SET UP

For the purpose of organising and bringing' home to the public the importance of subscribing to the forthcoming War Loan for a further £10,000,000, Mr T. P. Hanna, of the Reserve Bank addressed a public meeting in the Borough Council Chambers yesterday. Mr Hanna, who was introduced, by tlie Mayor, Mir B. S. Barry, said that the time was past when people allowed caprice to guide them in the matter of subscribing to a national loan. This lime with the enemy now in the Pacific and definitely threatening our shores, it must be realised by the public of New Zealand, that they were subscribing to their own safety. Every pound raised would be devoted to supplying their own boys with better equipment, arms, and supplies. It therefore became a duty to lend to the Government every available penny in this great struggle in which our very freedom was at stake. Mr Hanna said that suitable advertising and publicity material would be made available and asked that a local committee be set up to help forward the appeal which would commence within a week or two. Speakers endorsed the above remarks agreeing that the war had to be met from the public purse in any case and that it became necessary to make available all the "funds possible. The committee elected consisted of Messrs B. S. Barry, A. J. Canning, T. Harland, D. G. MeCallum, H. L. King, A. V. Lattimore, Les Littlejohn, C. A. Suckling, J. L. Burnett, XV. A., McCracken and C. KingsieySmith.