VOLUNTARY SAVING
AID FOR BRITAIN MINISTER’S VIEW ENDORSED VISIT OF MR F. P. WALSH The Aid for Britain National Council does not consider it feasible to attempt to persuade the Government to withdraw the extra rations of meat and butter for Christmas in order to divert them overseas. Speaking at a meeting of the Otago committee last night, the national chairman, Mr F. P. Wals’h, explained that his council had decided that, in view of the Government’s considered decision and the explanations made by the Minister of . Supply, Mr Nordmeyer, as well as the Aid for Britain conference decision, the organisation had decided that it must carry on with its policy of encouraging the voluntary surrendering of coupons.
If people were able or willing 10 surrender the extra ration allowances, the non-use of these coupons would result in additional exports to Britain. It would be difficult for the Government, he said, to reduce the total rationing allowances which were made available in the worst years of the war.
Details of the plans and achievements of the National Council were given by Mr Walsh. There was a full and frank discussion of the problems involved, and the meeting ended with a vote of confidence in the work of trite National Council. Full Support Pledged
In a statement to the Daily Times after the meeting, the chairman of the local committee, Mr R. C. Burgess, said that his committee was more than ever impressed by the tremendous need for aid for Britain. “We have pledged ourselves to continue to give full support to the movement and to do all we can to help the National Council in the very fine work it is doing,” he said. There was a fine spirit prevailing in the council, and he felt that it was the local committee’s job to spread that same 'feeling throughout the province.
Mr Walsh told the Daily Times that he had been most heartened by the constructive approach with which members of the Otago Committee were approaching their task. He felt confident that the public would be fully behind the committee in every phase of its important work. He had a special word of praise for Mr P. Barling’s fat-saving scheme. “ If Mr Barling’s work can be enlarged with the assistance of the local Aid for Britain Committee, and the same methods extended to other parts of the Dominion, the resultant fat would be perhaps the most welcome gesture we could make at this time to the Mother Country.” he said. Record Surpassed
“ I may mention.” he continued, “ that from figures given me by Mr Barling it seems that Dunedin’s fat collections have now passed the longstanding Dominion record of the Christchurch district.
“ Finally, I would like to express on behalf of the National Council deepest appreciation of the splendid and unselfish efforts of those farmers of Otago and their wives and others who have assisted so willingly and generously in this drive for edible fats for Britain.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 4
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497VOLUNTARY SAVING Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 4
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