WAR LOAN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23977, 18 June 1943, Page 6

WAR LOAN

Sir,—l endorse Mr Brockie’s letter wholeheartedly. Surely wanting interest on money needed to buy weapons of war for our own protection can hardly be called patriotism. If it is ' good enough for our men to give their lives, limbs, and eyesight, besides suf- , fering all the other hardships that go with war, then the least we fortunate ones back home can do is forfeit all interest. Last year my husband and I forwarded to the Government well into three figures, interest free, for the duration and six months after, as many others did, who are on the lower scale of income; but then we are not like Mr Doidge, M.P., who called the Government miserable, because it is not paying 4, per cent., thus increasing the war debt for those who have paid on the field of battle to have to pay again.— Yours, etc., , EDITH CLARIDGE. Rangiora, June 16, 1943. Sir,—ln my opinion an opportunity is being lost in regard to the Third Liberty Loan. I refer to the utilisation of the commercial travellers and salesmen, to radiate in the country from Christchurch selling Liberty Loan for one week. They could call on people well able to subscribe large amounts and by logical reasoning, bring them round to favourable action. They could give signed promises for so much Liberty Loan. Eaeh salesman crusader could set his quota, say at £IOO,OOO or more. Ten good men should hit the target at well over one million.—Yours, etc., THE PACEMAKER. June 16, 1943. [An official of the loan committee replied: “The suggestion is an excellent one and well worthy of consideration. We have in part already adopted it, as in the country districts the stock and station agents, also the staffs of insurance offices, are co-operating in sales. To extend this to commercial travellers is a suggestion that the committee might very well consider.”]