CRUSADE FOR VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 5

CRUSADE FOR VICTORY

Dominion-Wide Call To

All Women

■ A. crusade .for Victory organized b. v tbe. national ,■ co-ordinating committee of the ■Women’s Division 'of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the .Women’s Institues' of New Zealand has been started with the object of having all New Zealand’s ipod requirements grown within .the Dominion and a line of .supply to Great Britain and the Allied Forces kept up. The idea is to begin now to .relieve the shortage of shipping space by growing more potatoes and other vegetables- and increasing, egg production.. The crusade involves co-operation of city, town and country, and a united and consolidated effort of aliwomen. The Pahiatua branch of the W.D.F.U., under Mrs. Cornelius Walker, originated the scheme. The women of New Zealand must play a much ’ more vital and. 1 tqlling part in winning the war and they must concentrate on those things that-will support the fighting forces arid eliminate everything that detracts from and dissipates 1 e.nergy, states the crusade appeal. _ _ _ ' Every branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union and the women s 'institutes will receive .a circular dealing .with the plan. Countrywomen long ago accepted the challenge and with little or no help in the house or on the farm, worked long hoiirs to maintain production at its normal level, but they arc being urged to do even a little more with a realization of the tremendous issues'at stake. They are asking town women to co-operate with them, not only in the production of food by utilizing every plot of .ground available, but by exercising the strictest economy in the use of'food, remembering and appreciating the effort required to produce it. Other societies and individuals are to be invited to work with branches. The appeal asks women to work as never before and to stand ever united behind tinmen overseas. The motto of -the Crusade for Victory is "It all depends on me.” “Let every woman and-girl ask herself if the work she is doing is contributing directly to our war effort. Work for comforts.can easily be done as well ns vital work,” isthe concluding item in a pledge to which. Pablntua members of the W.D.F.U. will adhere.