ENLISTING THE CHILDREN.
ANOTHER instance of how the nation's war effort is awakening the national conscience, is the manner in which the children have been roped in to help in a practical manner towards the production of necessary foodstuffs. The visit of Mr G. JL. Zinzan last week indicates a constructive scheme for interesting school children, which is about to be: introduced. By this means the children will be given an insight into practical agriculture which in the ordinary course of haphazard child life would have required years of assimilation. The growing of much needed vegetable crops by children for consumption in military camps is therefore a twofold blessing, for apart from its practical value the knowledge imparted to the young gard.eners will become a permanent asset
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 189, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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127ENLISTING THE CHILDREN. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 189, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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