SECOND LIBERTY LOAN

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 4

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN

Half Of Issue Subscribed Already RESULT CONSIDERED MOST SATISFACTORY Half the amount of the Second Liberty Loan has been subscribed. In announcing yesterday that subscriptions now totalled £5,025,000, the Acting (Minister of Finance, Mr. Fraser, said, that this result was most satisfactory and gave every confidence that the remaining £5,000,000 would be obtained by November 14, the date on which subscriptions would close. “On every occasion,” continued. Mr. Fraser, “the people of New Zealand have responded readily and generously to calls on their energies and their resources, knowing as they do the issues that are at stake and feeling as they do that no sacrifice is too great when our way of life and the security of our country are directly threatened. “The spirit which .moved young New Zealanders to volunteer for service In battle fronts thousands of miles away and to give their lives with a heroism that has earned, for them and. the name of New Zealand universal honour, the spirit which caused the men and women of New Zealand in their hundreds of thousands to respond to the menace of the Japanese attack with their time and energies in all forms of national service, is the same spirit to which this Liberty Loan appeal is directed today. Efficiency of War Effort. “People have only to compare their lot with that of their kinsmen fighting overseas, with that of their kinsfolk in Britain, and of the stricken people of the devastated and conquered countries of the world, to realize that war has so far not borne harshly upon them. “It is the fervent desire of all of us that it will not, and everyone can assist in some measure toward increasing the efficiency of our war effort by their financial contributions and so keeping the enemy from our shores. “The Liberty Loan presents the people on the Home Front, with the opportunity of matching in some degree the efforts and sacrifices of our forces overseas, and I feel sure that they will not fail to respond on this occasion with even greater generosity than before. It is the duty of all who have money to invest, whether the sum be large or small, to subscribe to the utmost of their resources.”