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BILL
and
JACK

[Not to mention Susan and Molly]

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Success IS BASED ON LITTLE THINGS

THIS is a story of two young New Zealanders, who left
school just two years ago. At school Jack and Bill
had done well . . . both made the football fifteen and both
had been a little better than average at lessons. It seemed
that they would both find success easy to achieve in the
outside world.

You boys who have just started work understand how
they felt. No more asking Mum for pocket money; they
were going to pay Mum a bit of board; they were going
to do a million things and first of all they were going to
get jobs.

They got jobs—good jobs at wages that would have
dazzled a boy six years ago. Then they found that they
could work overtime. Really, they thought, life is very
simple; it’s so easy to make money.

Six months went by and you could see that money was
going to Bill’s head. He was spending it on a lot of useless
things and idle amusement. You see Bill was a bit young
to understand that having a good time was somewhat bad
taste when boys only a few years older were out there
fighting. So Bill kept on spending and if sometimes he
wasn’t able to pay Mum her board, well Mum was a good
sport; she’d understand.

Jack went on a different line. His Dad told him to
open a National Savings Account and probably that little
thing will make a big difference to his whole future. For

Jack was a real boy and he wanted to buy things just as
much as Bill did; but each week he did two things; he
paid Mum and he put 5/- into his National Savings
Account—and sometimes he put in his overtime money as
well.

A year rolled by and Jack found he had £20 in National
War Savings, but more important he’d learned the habit of
regular saving. Then he got a rise in wages and he put
that in his account too.

To-day these boys see the future through different eyes.
Bill just sees regular easy money and hopes it will continue.
But Jack knows that by the time he’s twenty-one he’ll be
ready to step out in a career and he’ll have a couple of
hundred pounds to give him a start.

There’s a moral in this brief tale for every boy and, of
course, for every girl starting work this year. There is no
more powerful weapon in the business of life than the habit
of regular saving. If you form that habit early it will stand
by you all your life. So now when you have taken your
first job . . . open your own National War Savings Account.
If the company you work for has a group scheme join that
and then your savings will be automatic. National War
Savings assist the war effort, they bring you 3% interest
and they build you a nest egg for the time when peace comes
and when you will wish to launch yourself on your career.

And always remember that in war-time it is good taste and
good business to be saving in everything.

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Here is an interesting table

Do you realize how small sums deposited in a National
Savings Account each week will grow with interest at
3% if allowed to accumulate?

Amount paid in
Weekly
Will amount to in—

1 Year
2 Years
3 Years

1s. . . . . . .
£ s. d.
2 12 6
£ s. d.
5 6 6
£ s. d.
8 2 1
2s. . . . . . .
5 5 2
10 13 6
16 5 1
5s. . . . . . .
13 3 3
26 14 4
40 13 7
10s. . . . .
26 6 11
53 9 5
81 8 2
£1 . . . . . .
52 14 1
106 19 5
162 17 2

FIX YOUR OBJECTIVE AND WATCH
YOUR SAVINGS GROW

Issued by the N.Z. National War Savings Committee,
Wellington

H.B.& J.LTD