KING'S VEGETABLES
COLOUR FILM TAKEN ENGLAND'S VICTORY GARDENS Wartime gardeners in Buckingham Palace grounds and in London's working class districts are tlie stars of a colour film which has just been released. The film shows the public how not only these gardeners, but A.R.Pwo rkcrs, schoolboys, hospital patients and housewives are joining in the "Dig for Victory" campaign in Britain's 3,000,000 private gardens. Tt is probably the first garden newsreel, certainly the first in colourA second colour film deals with vegetable pests, Avhilc a third about tomato-growing will help British gardeners to replace the tomatoes usually imported from the Channel fsles. Shots of successful tomatogrowing on the roof of a cinema, in the yard of a public house and outside shops are shown in the film. Lecturer- fire nn tour with the film* uii.-w vrinu questions put by audience.-*. La.-t year they had KOO meetings in large towns and small viiiage.-, where they speke to ,10,000 people.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 32, 23 March 1942, Page 6
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157KING'S VEGETABLES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 32, 23 March 1942, Page 6
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