THE WAR LOAN.
A CALL TO THE FREE.
WELLINGTON, March 19. Britain, with her Allies, is fighting for the liberty of mankind—that you and those who come after you may live as free people in a free world. If Great Britain is crushed, vrhat of New Zealand ? Help the Motherland. How? By lending your savings to the State to provide men, munitions, ships, and foodstuffs. Do you realise what vast treasures Groat Britain has poured out ,in this gigantic struggle She has spent over £5,000,000,000. She is spending £7,000,000 a day. In tile- greatest battle of all time which we are told is to be waged this year on the Western front, the British Army will fire away £1,000,000,000 worths of shells. Immediately behind our millions of fighting men are the great armies of doctors, nurses, hospital .attendants, munition and food carriers, and workers of all kinds. . , In Britain itself 15,000,000 people are toiling a.t the manufacture of the necessary shells and the guns, and the food, and the thousand requirements of transport. The less we borrow from Britain, the more money she will have to pay these sturdy toilers for a world’s peace. Be a. true New Zealander. Subscribe yourself and get others to take wa r bonds and certificates.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1918, Page 2
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