URGENT DEMAND FOR FOOD

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 6

URGENT DEMAND FOR FOOD

Appeal To Dig For Victory The urgency of the demand for food for New Zealand and Allied forces overseas was stressed by the chairman of flic Wellington committee of the National Dig for Victory Campaign, Mr. V. E. Llanip-soti-Tindalc. at. the official opening ol the demonstration plot iu Kent Terrace yesterday, lie urged the necessity for the pulilie to grow as many vegetables ns possible to meet their own needs, and said the Dig for Victory Campaign was not a "stunt” but a plan to make New Zealanders garden-conscious. The Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, sent his apologies for unavoidable absence from the ceremony and was represented by Mr. Roberts. M.P., who is organizer of the campaign throughout the Dominion. Tlie Wellington City Council was represented by Cr. K. L. Mnciilister in the absence of the mayor. Mr. Hislop.

Cr. Maealister, chairman of the council's reserves committee, said that 500 garden plots had been made available, within the Town Belt, by the city council. These were under cultivation and any person who wap ted extra ground to grow vegetables would receive a plot -15 ft. by 20ft. in any locality on application to the council and payment of a small registration fee. Mr. W. Rough, of the Dig for Victory Connnittec, was commentator on the gardening operations, and Messrs. Green and Cooper were thanked for tlie provision of the public address system. Tlie U.S. Marine Corps band provided opening and incidental music. A not Iter demonstration on a larger scale is to be held in the Botanical Gardens on October 9.