ANSWER THE CALL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3286, 9 July 1943, Page 7

ANSWER THE CALL

AN OBLIGATION TO ALL THIRD LIBERTY LOAN MAINTAIN THE WAR EFFORT This week’s responsibility for the people of New Zealand is to complete the Third Liberty Loan by subscribing £9,213,000. “We have confidence,” states the National War Loan Committee, “that the people will not let down their fighting men. For over three years the Dominion has maintained a wonderful war effort overseas and at home but as the years pass the task naturally becomes harder. We have not yet reached the point when we have to do without food or reasonable comforts or amusements but some of our cash must go into the Third Liberty Loan even if that means going short of ready money.

“This is a plain duty to our sons and brothers in uniform. It would be hard for them if they saw that at last we were flagging*, that we were less keen to make sacrifices when it becomes more difficult. They could understand a shortage of goods at home but they would be discouraged if the results of the Liberty Loan appeal showed that we were losing our capacity to make a money sacrifice. They know quite well that there is no shortage of money here. Without loyal support behind the fighting front the actual fighting effort which preserves us and our assets would fail and the assets pass out of our control.

The four weeks’ campaigning has produced such a splendid numerical response from all sections of the community without exception that subscribers now total 198,000, but if everyone in New Zealand who has an obligation to answer the patriotic call of the Third Liberty Loan does the right thing the final total should be over 300,000 and everyone who reads this article would be included.”