WHERE ALL CO-OPERATE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 71, 8 May 1945, Page 4

WHERE ALL CO-OPERATE

VICTORY LOAN EFFORT THIS YEAR'S WAR LOAN The 'Campaign for the 1945 War Loan officially opens with a public ceremony outside Parliament Building on Monday ? May 11 with an objective of £25 millions to be reached in just over a month. After a £40 million success last year it might be assumed that New Zealanders could easily shoulder a much smaller investment this, year as a patriotic duty/' states the National War Loan Council but members of campaign. committees ail over the country are taking no risks of a failure which would lessen the prestige of the Dominion and be. a discouraging thing to the lighting servicemen who so far have never been deprived of the finest possible weapons: and supplies they have used so courgaeously and so successfully. In the sixth year of the war stored up reserves available for Avar loans must, have been substantially turned into war loan scrip but the country's current income has been greater than ever and it is from this source that it is hoped to draw most of the £25 million investment in the War Loan whether by way of stock bonds or National Savings Accounts. | There are no differences of opinion about it. Directing the campaign is a National War Loan Council, under the chairmanship of the Governor of the Reserve Bank and including in its membership the Heads of almost all the Dominion's j national organisations; the National War Savings Committee; the FedI eration of Labour; the New Zealand

Employers Federation; the Chairman of the Counties' Association and Municipal Association; Presidents of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors Association; the Associated Chambers of Commerce; the New Zealand Farmers' Union; the National Council of Women and the Women's War Service as well as the Heads of large financial institutions and the Chairman of the Associated Banks. The Non-Partisan Organisation has approved a plan of work and publicity which is being given life and vitality in every one of the twenty postal districts of the country. Delegates from these areas met. to discuss the practical arrangements and organised their, local committees on the most representative, basis to bring the war loan; under everyones notice becausc the 1945 Victory Loan is a 1945 war duty for all who are privileged to live and they live in a country which veterans of the New Zealand Division just returned have declared after all their travels is the best little country in the world.