"BONDS FOR BOMBERS"
Radio Vo Assist In National Drive
EXT week is "Bonds for Bombers" .week, featuring a Dominion-wide drive, organised by the National Savings organisation, and making fullest use of press, radio, and other publicity. It is designed to raise money to help to increase the working
strength and efficiency of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. With the war in the Pacific now at the back door of Australia and New Zealand, the campaign is one which is expected to have full and wide support; bonds of all denominations, it is hoped, will be one of the best selling commodities in the country. Prelude to "Bonds for Bombers" week will be a five-minute talk by the chairman of National Savings, T. N. Smallwood, which will be broadcast by all National and Commercial stations at 6.10 p.m. on Sunday, March 22. Later the same evening, Wellington listeners will have a special reminder of the purpose of the campaign. The band of the R.N.Z.A.F., under Flight Lieutenant Gladstone Hill, will give a concert in the Opera House, Wellington; and portion of it will be broadcast by 2ZB, 2ZA, and 2YC.
At nine o’clock the following morning bonds will be on sale to the public at all post offices, and at 12.30:p.m. comes the opening proper. The main ceremony will take place in front of the Wellington railway station, and there will be a broadcast, originating from 2YA, over all main National and Commercial stations and 2ZJ Gisborne, 2YN Nelson, and 2YB New Plymouth. Mr. Smallwood will introduce a returned airman, Sergeant C. B. G. Knight, D.F.M., who will perform the opening, and then, at a word of command, a parade of the armed forces will move off to impress the public of Wellington with the need of Bonds for Bombers. Simultaneously, parades will start in other centres throughout the country, in cities and towns large and small-any-where, in fact, where there is a National Savings Committee (there are 200 in New Zealand) to undertake the organisation. Throughout the week radio will carry on the work of helping sales of bonds. Talks will be given and frequent reminders of the campaign will be interspersed throughout the programmes every day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 8
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