AIR FORCE FARM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 7

AIR FORCE FARM

SUBSTANTIAL ANNUAL PROFIT. PURCHASE OF CONVERSION LOANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. February 26. The example shown by an R.A.F. station “farm.” which, with a substantial annual profit, is buying conversion loans, is creating a spirit of emulation among neighbouring units, including the army. “The conversion loan.” says a squadron leader, who takes a great pride in the undertaking, “becomes the property of the Personal Service Institution, which supplies funds for the welfare of troops, and also free entertainments and wireless sets for airmen. Labour on the fa 'in comes from airmen sufficiently keen, to offer to work in their free lime.” The diligence of the farming enthusiasts. states She Air Ministry News. Service, can be gauged from ‘lie fact th e. 13 .icres < f rough ground round the aerodrome h.is been ploughed and sowed with potatoes, cabbages, peas beans, turnips, eimlillowcrs. and other vegetables, with the result that the farm now yields a substantial annual profit. The outlay is £l6O a year and it is hoped that 30 tons of potatoes will be viclded this season, besides substantial crops of green stulls Tomatoes are al<o being produced, ;ind a mushroom bee! is to be laid down. A pig farm is an equal!.’. striking example of euthwiasm. A leading aircraftman, wh>» for ye.us lias been a. pig-breeding export, is m sole charge of ;-lo pigs, which sibirt uneoncei'nedlj at the edge of the aerodrome, wlnl* army cu-oper.di"n aircraft eonlinuotisly fly L-w above and around Sales! <>f r>:s. take pl regularly under 1 Ministry <>f Food licence m the nearest loeid m.wm-'