CITY’S NATIONAL SAVINGS RECORD

Southland Times, Issue 24879, 20 October 1942, Page 4

CITY’S NATIONAL SAVINGS RECORD

“The Invercargill National Savings Committee is working hard to maintain for a full year the city s splendid National Savings record,” said the district organizer, Mr W. G. Nield, yesterday. Mr Nield said that Invercargill had reached or beaten its National Savings quota of £2043 for 48 weeks in succession. The total amount subscribed by the city during this period was more than £lOO,OOO. . “I hope that National Savings investments will be maintained during the period of the Second Liberty Loan campaign,” Mr Nield said. The weekly quota of £2043 represents only 5/_ a household a week, and if Liberty Loan goodwill deposits were made weekly the raising of the quota for the remaining four weeks necessary to complete a year of quota successes would be assured.” . Last week 40 new National Savings accounts were opened in Southland, making the total for the province 18,593.

POSSIBLE AIR RAIDS.— Mr Churchill in a message to the Civil Defence Services, said: “We cannot know with certainty the total weight of the attack the Germans may be able to or may decide to bring to bear on any particular city. It may well be menacing and heavy enough to call for everything the civil defence can produce to defeat it. Our duty is to be prepared every day at all points. (London.) FARMER’S BEQUESTS.— Leaving an estate valued at £13,000, the late Mr Charles Henry Owens, a retired farmer, made bequests totalling £7600 to various institutions, including £lOOO each to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, the Auckland branch of the Plunket Society, the Henry Brett Memorial Home for Girls. St. Mary’s Anglican Home, Otahuhu, and tire Community Sunshine Association, Auckland.—P.A.