ON THE HOME FRONT
CHILDREN GROW VEGETABLES EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ENCOURAGING EFFORTS Interesting the school children in the country's war effort, the Education Department's Agricultural Instructor stationed at Tauranga, Mr G. L. Zinzan, is touring the Bay of Plenty and lecturing at the schools on the growing of vegetables, principally carrots and onions, on their / home plots. Under the' Education. Department's scheme, cach child receives two hundred onion plants and of carrot seed for Is and proceeds to interest himself or herself in gardening. The general idea is to get the children interested in the work for the job itself, but it is hoped that the resultant crops will be donated to military camps, hospitals, refugee establishments, etc.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 189, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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117ON THE HOME FRONT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 189, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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