THE FOOD SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15874, 13 April 1917, Page 6

THE FOOD SUPPLY.

HOME GROWING SUGGESTED

The need for cach householder cul-

tivating his own garden plot and bringing every vacant section into uso jjo improve the food supply, was strewed at the meeting of the City Council J last evening.

The clerk of the Waipara County Council forwarded a series of resolutions adopted by the Council, urging that everyono with even 6mall arc** of land should cultivate it with vegetables and potatoes, thereby assisting the country in a time of world shortagcy of food. A canvass amongst farmers to grow wheat and oats had been very successful, but it was urged .that halfholidays might bo profitably and ' healthily used in the cultivation of the small arcus.

Beforo the letter was read Cr. Jameson enquired if it affected municipal politics. Tho Mayor said the letter seemed to him a very sensible one, and affected the municipality in that it urged the people in the city to cultivate their plots of land. The letter was then read, after which tho Mayor said that two years ago the Council had done all it could to encourage cultivation. This year Lancaster Park was being cultivated, and be was not suio that tlio Domain Board would not do something of the same sort. Many sports bodies, in view of the slackness of sport, might be urged to cultivate every yard of ground. He would move that tho letter be endorsed.

Cr. "Williams suggested that the letter bo referred to tho Reserves Committee for it to put tho necessary machinery in motion to carry out the suggestion.

This was agreed to. Cr. McCullough said he had hearJ that a private firm- had offered to plant /seven acres for tho Domain Board in potatoes free, of charge, and devote tho proceeds to some patriotic fund. This was a move in tho right direction. . Tho motion was carricd unanimously.