FOOD IN WAR
NEED FOR MORE PRODUCTION. LORD BLEDISLOE'S ADVICE. In a letter to “The Times,” Lord Bledisloe emphasises the need for more war time production of food. He says that, taking the country generally, there are fewer allotments under cultivation today than there were in 1918. In the villages what used to be allotments under cultivation are now derelict and weed-grown plots, weeds which are snreading to the detriment of cultivated ground in their vicinity. Ho considers that a systematic and vigorous “drive” in this connection is an urgent need, but it cannot be given by the county executive committees, allotments and cottages being outside their legitimate sphere of activity. Lord Bledisloe says that if the Government offered help with the prehnise of seed potatoes in the spring the cost to the public would be trifling while the security against food scarcity would bo immeasurable. The two land products, which, in German estimation, wore deemed of the highest food value in the last war, wore pigs and potatoes, i These foods enabled her to hold out for whole year dosnitc Iho British blockade.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 15
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184FOOD IN WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 15
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