The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday, Nov. 4th. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENT LOAN.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 November 1920, Page 2

The Kaipara & Waitemata ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" Helensville, Thursday, Nov. 4th. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENT LOAN.

Particulars, of this loan appearing on another page set forth fully the objects of the loan. The following is a copy of an open letter from the Right Han. W.F. Massey (Prime Minister):— " The £6,000.000 5^ per cent. Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Loan, as its name applies, is intended to supply the remaining funds required for repatriation and soldier settlement purposes. It will, it is confidently expected, { suffice to meet our obligations in j connection with the late war to the men who so nobly responded to the call of duty in the unprecedented crisis that then arose, and who, on the field of action, upheld the honour and dignity of New Zealand while defending the threatened liberties and free citizenship of the State against an unscrupulous toe pledged to its undoing. It is not necessary for me to stress the point that subscription to this loan (the last of the war series) should he made as freely and spontaneously as possible, even if in the subscription sacrifices are entailed. The men for whose benefit it is being raised did not hesitate when the call for sacrifice came to them, and it is to their ready response and action in the time of national peril that we owe the preservation of our homes and liberties to-day. They took their lives in their hands. Many of them have returned cripples and otherwise disabled from the war, while more than 16,000 made the supreme sacrifice, and are numbered with ' our glorious dead whose name liveth for ever more,' and who.-c example silently appeals to us that while we should cherish their memqriesand care for their dependents, we should not overlook the claims of their fellows, who, having in the order of Providence, survived the fiery ordeal of battle, have returned to us, and have to be resettled in civilian life. The loan itself is of the reproductive order, and eventually every penny of the money subscribed will be returned to the State. It is offered on liberal terms. The security is good. The whole credit of the State is at its back, and the duty of finding the money is incumbent upon us. The men in whose interest it is being raised are worthy of all the assistance we can give them, and, while subscription has been made compulsory, I feel it will not be necessary to enfoPGe the penalising cjaijses of the Act which authorises its floation. We want a quick response in the shortest possible time. I therefore earnestly commend the appeal which is now being made to you, and trust that every citizen in New Zealand whose circumstances permit will not fail to respond to the call of duty in the matter."