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HOW OUR FOOD SUPPLY CAN BE ASSURED

... soil fertility. Dig for Victory It is easily possible for us to be selfsupporting as regards food if we can increase our cattle by 60 per cent., sheep, pigs and poultry by 100 per cent., and wheat by 50 per cent. The 'Dig for Victory ' campaign would ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PRAISE FOR PORTISHEAD ALLOTMENTS

... commended certificate, signed by the President, Lord Trent, to mark really magnificent effort which it) has made in the dig for victory campaign. Many the competitors ran each other very close and the task ol the adjudicators was by no means easy.- The ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

KINGSWOOD JEKYLL AND HYDE

... KINGSWOOD JEKYLL AND HYDE Let help you to 'Dig for Victory' said a 17-year-old youth to two Kingswocd girls who were working in their front garden The Ktrts acreed. The youth, with a friend, finished the digging— and then walked oft with a gold ring, worth ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO ENCOURAGE GARDEN CULTIVATION

... prize fund and to arrange a show of the produce. The Council learnt with gratification that since th° launching of the Dig for Victory campaign in March. 180 new plots with a to:ai area of 1.283 perches' had been brought in ;o cultivation ' ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALLOTMENTS SCHEME AT CIRENCESTER

... the scheme for providing wartime allotments. . The chairman (Mr A. J. Matthews) stated that the Council itself took the dig for victory campaign very much heart, holding a special meeting to work out a scheme, spending money on adver* Using, and preparing ...

Published: Monday 29 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEW GROW-MORE-FOOD CAMPAIGN

... NEW GROW-MORE-FOOD CAMPAIGN ache bettc,r tha * heartthan* have heartache These new for the dig for victory cam- s Quoted by Mr H. Parliamentary Private ae.retary to the Minister of Agrie> when he inaugurated, during the week-end, a WW Mere Pood Campaign ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1941
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VICTORY GARDEN GATE SIGNS

... VICTORY GARDEN GATE SIGNS 'PHE Minister of Agriculture, Mr R. S. Hudson, has been so impressed by the response to the new Dig for Victory campaign that he has decided that patriotic householders should be given a sign that can be fixed on their garden ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

... £250 has been awarded to J. C. French, of 38 Cranbrook Road, Bristol, who is among the first 10 p'rizc-winners in a dig for victory competition organised lor allotment holders. Absent From Ship Michael van Straaten (38). of Teviot Street. Glasgow, ...

Published: Monday 28 October 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MEND-NOT SPEND, OR DARN FOR VICTORY

... ou. of their clothes. In other words they must mend instead of spend, and the slogan Darn for Victory may yet. become as well known as Dig for Victory.' ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TO-DAY IN THE GARDEN

... TO-DAY IN THE GARDEN Victory Digging (By F W MILES R.H S ) January 29. —To some, optimists the food situation seems so much easier that they are unable to detect any urgent reason why they personally should Dig for Victory. In the circumstances one feels ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARISH MEETING SHOWS BALANCE IN HAND

... Mr F. Gray, the report was adopted. The meeting decided to exploit as fully as possible the parish allotments in the Dig foi Victory campaign. ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WARMLEY GATES PROTEST

... complaints were received of ihe takin. of the gates from the hous-s in 3 area, being said that this was likely to hamper the Dig for Victory movement owing to cattle straying. It was decided to call the attention of the Member of Parliament for the area and the ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 2 | Tags: none