LIBERTY LOAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 2

LIBERTY LOAN

EVERYONE’S SUPPORT WANTED

YESTERDAY’S RALLY AT POST OFFICE.

W.W.S.A. SELL BONDS WORTH £922.

Liberty Bonds worth £922 were sold by members of the Masterton Women’s War Service Auxiliary outside the Rest Office at yesterday afternoon’s Liberty Loan gathering. The auxiliary has now sold Liberty Bonds to the value of £3,700 which is regarded by the committee as a specially fine effort. The girls, in their srrlart khaki uniforms, created a most favourable impression in the course of yesterday’s campaign.

A bright and interesting programme was presented by the combined Marine Band outside the Post Office in Lincoln Road yesterday afternoon in furtherance of the Liberty Loan campaign. Therg was a large attendance of the public who showed generous appreciation of the splendid music played by the band. Mr J. Jameson made the announcements over the broadcast system. LONDON'S EXAMPLE. “Is it much to boast about?” asked the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, referring to the fact that about £13,500,000 had been raised for the Third Liberty Loan. To his knowledge advance subscriptions amounted to some £5,000,000, which meant that actually'since the loan opened only £8,500,000 had been subscribed. They had been told that they were doing well and that a good job was being done but was that based on fact? Poor, bombed, battered London set out to raise a loan of £150,000,000 in a week last March. Within a week bombed and battered London raised £160,000.000 and perhaps being bombed and battered was the reason for the performance. Mr Jordan said he would’be sorry to think that this district needed to be bombed and blasted to raise its quota. The Masterton district had raised so far £160,000. The annual wool cheque was about £2,000.000 for the district. They had heard- about the 15 per cent wool bonus. Who paid for that but the people of bombed London? New Zealand, with a population of one and a half million people', had to raise a loan of 35 millions. All could not contribute but those who could were duty bound to do so. It had been said that it would not matter if they all came out of the war with nothing so long as they could do as they liked. The beautiful country they lived in could always feed and keep them. Mr Jordan commended that sentiment to his listeners. He had heard it said in the street that there was too much waste. Was not war murder and waste, asked Mr Jordan, but cfould waste be avoided in time of war? Was it waste to support the two divisions overseas? They had all heard General Freyberg speaking over the air. Could they still talk politics? It was his and their government and they were bound to support it. In conclusion Mr Jordan urged the whole of the community to get behind the loan. , APPEAL TO WOMENFOLK. An appeal to the womenfolk to give their assistance in raising the loan was made by Mrs Robert Miller. She pointed out that Mr Jordan had given the choice of lean liberty or fat slavery. Mrs Miller said most women liked saving their money to buy bargains and she urged them to invest their money in the Liberty Loan so that they could buy better bargains in the future.

In introducing Mr P. J. Borthwick, Mr Jameson said Mr Borthwick had given a great lead to the district.

Mr Borthwick said he wished to speak to those present as individuals, rather than collectively. He pointed out that today £1 bought only 10s worth of luxuries. Taking that as perhaps a selfish aspect, if people were to invest in the Liberty Loan they would be merely postponing their spending power until they could get £1 worth of luxuries for their £l.

Mr Jameson made an appeal to the youth of the district who were earning good wages to play their part in the loan.

A vote of thanks was passed to the band by acclamation.

MASTERTOM’S RESPONSE

PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN.

STOCK TOTAL NOW £169,395

To date, Liberty Loan stock amounting to £169,395 has been taken up in Masterton. Yesterday, 50 applications were received for £10,610. In addition, bonds worth £2169 were sold yesterday and war savings receipts totalled £1123, making a grand total to date of £189,236. An intensive campaign in support of the Third Liberty Loan is being conducted in all branches of the Railways Department. The General Manager, Mr E. Casey, is chairman of a committee consisting of departmental ex'ecutives, together with the secretaries of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Enginedrivers’, Firemen and Cleaners Association, Railway Officers’ Institute and Railway Tradesmen’s Association, sub-committees of which are canvassing employees throughout the service to help in ensuring the success of the loan. One of the first savings groups to be formed in New Zealand, the personnel of the Railways is already depositing upwards of £24,000 per annum in National War Savings accounts and it is confidently anticipated that the response to the present appeal will result not only in the opening of many additional accounts but in increasing the deposits in existing National War Savings accounts and also in the liberal purchase of Liberty Bonds. The meeting called for tonight of the W.W.S.A. in connection with the war loan campaign has been postponed.

The Masterton branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners has subscribed £2OO to the Liberty Loan and War Savings Account.

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