DIGGING FOR VICTORY
When Mr Churchill, in a recent broadcast, referred, to the way in which during the first 10 weeks oi war Great Britain has been able to build up her combative strength, he was speaking in terms ol men and munitions, comments the Daily Tele graph. But the observation is equally applicable to another vital factor in the nation's war-potential—the home-production ol lood. Once more war-time allotments have appeared as features in suburban an 1 rural prospects. In many directions today men and women may be observed industriously digging and planting Lhe little plots of land apportion ed to them by local authorities for the cultivation of vegetables, and so highly is this activity officially esteemed that the Ministry of Agriculture is now taking steps l° r provision of .">OO,OOO new allotments. Happily, the call is one which finds an almost instinctive response, and not least, as 11k. most casual observer is aware, among town-dwellers.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 111, 17 January 1940, Page 3
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