LETTERS TO EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 12, 9 October 1943, Page 4

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Dig For Victory

Sir, —May I ask space in your columns to pass a timely suggestion along to the employers of those thousands of frustrated folk who have vegetable plots lying sodden and unfilled by luscious vege-tables-to-be, because of the vagaries of the weather. The situation has got to a stage when one switches off the radio in fury as again and again one is urged and implored to “Dig for Victory”—because one simply cannot dig or sow when every weekend is wet, and during the odd spells of fine weather one is tied to an office desk. Yet the situation, we are told., is nationally serious. Could not employers be asked, where possible, to rearrange work occasionally ■—working lunch hours, for instance —or coming an hour or two late in the morning, so that's fine half-day could be used to advantage in the vegetable plot. A lot of ground could be dug, or seeds sown, between 2-7 p.m., or during a few morning hours before going to office. This is a serious suggestion to meet a vital J>roba serious tc _ FKUSTRATBD GARDENER. Wellington, October 8.