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DIG FOR VICTORY

... DIG FOR VICTORY A committee to encourage the development of food production in allotments and private gardens, and to co-ordinate the activities of the various bodies concerned, is to appointed by Mr John Colville, M.P., Secretary of State for Scotland ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BORDERERS DELVE!

... greater home food production. There would not have been the same scramble now to turn over more the good British earth. Dig for Victory! the cry. and it is imperative that all Borderers should respond to it. There is a movement to encourage the development ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WE PAY POSTAGE. MINTO W.R.I. AND CARDENS

... lecturers at this season would run the risk of row's of empty seats, but not so Mr Stuart. There is little doubt but that Dig for Victory will be put into practice around Minto and Denholm. LEGERWOOD RURAL AND EGGS Legerwocd W.R.I. had a good gathering of ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MADE TO ANY MEASURE 26/9

... Trouser slightly less weight at 18/9. Same make and shape. WM. KERR, Farmers’ Outfitter, THORNHILL, -- Dumfriesshire. DIG FOR VICTORY CKRTinCATKS HONOUR For AUotnicut-Holders The Scottish Gardens and Allotments Committee s plans lor next year to increase ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

’PHONE 317 NO VISION

... million or two acres tor which a subsidy is to be given of £2 per acre. And the nation is quite rightly being urged to dig for victory.” But it is all rather painful to those who have for many years urged the Government to adopt a real agricultural policy ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATIONALTRADITION

... like this. They are inhuman if that is their outlook while men are dying in the service of their country. We are told to dig for victory. Well, gardening would be a good way to spend the Common Riding holiday. After further discussion it was decided that ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BORDER NOTES AND COMMENTS

... the streams. These enable him to preserve his sanity and his soul in a sorry world. Border gardeners are preparing to dig for victory. A number of them have started. The potato has increased in importance since the Huns commenced their campaign of sea ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1303 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BORDER NOTES AND COMMENTS

... a start in their gardens and allotments. The national call is to grow more vegetables, and those who wield the spade dig for victory. This year, many householders will be inclined to spend their leisure near home, and consequently, gardening wul be tne ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1265 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BORDER NOTES AND COMMENTS

... Government is to make every place a fortress within our island fortress. Able-bodied men will welcome the opportunity to dig for victory in this way. Councillor Stoddart of Hawick has a pithy way of expressing himself. At a meeting of the County Council ho ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SELKIRK

... have CO. and there are 56 under the War Emergency Scheme. There are still five let. This is a good contribution in the dig for victory campaign. Shelter in Park. A group of householders have been busy for some time making an air raid shelter in the Pringle ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SELKIRK

... —Mrs G. M. Elliott, with (22) 71 was the winner the first ladies' monthly golf competition in aid of the Red Cross. Dig for Victory.” —About ten acres of allotments are now under cultivation in the burgh. Over forty new members have been enrolled. Etthick ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2257 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SELKIRK

... successful in our efforts as journalists, especially as the proceeds from the sale of the Magazine will help to finance the ‘ dig for victory * campaign being waged at present in the School grounds. Congratulations to the Editorial Staff Andrew W. Henderson. ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2582 | Page: 5 | Tags: none