LIBERTY LOAN

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 4

LIBERTY LOAN

Appeal For Support “There is talk-of equality of sacrifice, 'but one of the tragedies of war is that there cannot ever be any absolute equality of sacrifice at such a time; some may perish, some suffer permanent disability, and those iu authority can only do their best to spread the burdens as fairly and evenly as possible,” said the chairman of the Associated Banks, Mr. H. R. Chalmers, in an address last night in connexion with the Liberty Loan. “We at home can all curtail our spending on ourselves, on luxuries and pleasure, even on what we once considered necessities, and put whatever money we ean save and spare into the loans —not only this loan, but future loans as they are .put on the market,” he said. ' “We are not being asked to give our money, but to invest it at a reasonable rate of interest. We are a free nation, fighting for the freedom which our forbears fought to obtain and to maintain. Think what -they paid for that freedom, and. realize that the price we have to pay is that each and every one of us must deny ourselves some of the things to which we have grown accustomed and put what we save by doing so into the Liberty Loans. No amount is too large and none too small. The unconquerable spirit can be displayed as much in the ftO of the widow, the clerk, the wage-earner, as in the larger amounts invested by those in more easy circumstances.

“We have not so far failed in providing all our Government has required in the way of loans to prosecute the war, and I am sure that we are not now going to allow the world to think that the people of this Dominion are not prepared to sacrifice something of their physical comforts to help in the common cause.” Investments To Last Night The total of .subscriptions to the Liberty Loan was raised yesterday .to £6,201,180, representing 7531. applications. Yesterday's business amounted to £361,610, through 654 applications. Additional investments reported are:— Leslie A. Lumbourne, £100; H. H. Nash, £100; Henry Savage. £250; Hubert L. Nathan, £500; John Odlin and Co., Ltd., £5800; T. Angus White, £250; Jones Bros.. Ltd., £250; Co-op. Dairy Producers’ Freezing Co., Ltd, £1000; J. B. Westrav and Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., £400; Hillcastle (N.Z.), Ltd.. £500; Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., £20,000; F. T. Wimble and Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., £1000; B. K Morton Pty., Ltd., £250; Norwich Union Life Insurance Society (second investment), £20,000; A. S. Paterson mid Co.. Ltd., £2500; Mrs. Zoe Riddiford, £1000; Brailsfords. Ltd., £500: Singer Sewing Machine Co., £5OOO.

Tomorrow will be Air Force Day in Wellington in the loan campaign. A parade leaving the railway station at 12.15 p.m. will march through the city streets. It will be headed by the Air Force Band. Following will lie a squadron of airmen, W.A.A.F. drum and five band, detachments of the W.A.A.F. and Air Training Corps, and a mechanized section including a captured Messerssehmitt. The parade will be under Flight Lieutenant S. S. McMinn. There will be a rally at. liberty corner starting at 1 p.m., with the Air Force Band playing from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.