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Letters to the Editor , FARMERS ARE DENIED EXTRA CHEESE Sir, —You recently published a report of a question on

... plight. During the past six months three of my pullets have died from some obscure complaint. Looking round the recent 'Dig for Victory' exhibition, noticed stand run by the Ministry of Agriculture's Domestic Poultry - keepers' Council and-1 asked the advice ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EXHIBITION Town Hall, April 13, 14, 15, 16 THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL DISPLAYS INCLUDING COMBINED CHELTENHAM TRADERS ..

... will help to tide over a dangerous shortage. Make a point of visiting the Cheltenham Salvage Committees Stand at the Dig for Victory Exhibition. CIVIL DEFENCE. FOOD TREATMENT SERVICE (WAR CASES) The Stand will show methods of protecting food from damage ...

Published: Monday 12 April 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 398 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIRST MONTH WORST IN GARDENING

... and bullets, said Mr. C. H. Middleton, of 8.8.C. fame, in one of his more serious moments during talk at Cheltenham's Dig for Victory exhibition on Wednesday. The Mayor of Cheltenham (Councillor T. W. Waite), president of the exhibition, was in the chair ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 586 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PROBLEM OF SURPLUS FRUIT DISPOSAL

... amount in subscriptions to hand for the David Leuchars Memorial Fund, with the addition of the balance denoted from the Dig for Victory Committee, was £123. A letter was read from Mr. W. F. Peacock, of Hales-road, Cheltenham, suggesting that surplus fruit ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRAISE FOR BIG PRODUCE SHOW

... one of the best I have seen this year, said , Mr. F. G. Stevens, of the Ministry of Agriculture, organiser of the Dig for Victory campaign, at the Town Hall on Thursday. The exhibit staged your Parks Superintendent certainly the best I have seen ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor ENGLAND IS CHRISTIAN COUNTRY Sir, —In his address to the Diocesan Conference, the Bishop ..

... untenanted plots. Those of us who rent adjoining plots have had them covered with thistle and other seeds. Many of us dig for victory at the end of a hard day's work. We carry our tools some distance, and have no water available for planting out. Yet we ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEW MAYOR ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHANGES

... occasions as the Book Drive, Aid to Russia, and R.A.F. Benevolent Funds, the visit of Queen Mary to the Dig for Victory -Exhibition, and Wings for Victory Week. Lastly, he said, there was the opening by Sir- Archibald Sinclair of the Services Club, which ...

Published: Tuesday 09 November 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor CRITICISM OF FOOD IN CAMPS Sir, —We need a system of inspection for all buildingtrade ..

... RABBIT MENACE Sir, heartily agree with Harassed Gardener. What encouragement does the local Council give anyone to dig for victory ? There will be many more vacant allotments if the rabbit menace is not mastered. Every year at Marie Hill I have lost ...

Published: Monday 01 November 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

... Donald McCullough, Esq. Questions addressed to Brains Trust, Town Hall, Cheltenham, or placed in box at entrance to Dig for Victory Exhibition, not later than Thursday, 15th April. The result of the Allotment Competition will be announced at the conclusion ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FINE WORK BY TOWN'S VICTORY DIGGERS

... Garden Town of England, a town which from its very name should be setting example to the whole country. Since the last 'Dig for Victory' Exhibition held 12 months ago the number of allotment tenants has increased by 176, and I am told that the increase since ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 966 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S GOSSIP

... last winter and spring are conspiring together to add to the difficulties of those patriotic citizens who supported the Dig for Victory campaign. The potato crop in Cheltenham is going to be light, the Gardens Superintendent (Mr. J. W. Smith) tells u£, ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1040 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S GOSSIP

... remainder. A suggestion that will probably be favourably received in the appropriate quarter, was that any profit from, the Dig for Victory exhibition should be devoted to the cot fund, t The sympathy of the Com-1 mittee was extended to the 1 newly - appointed ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1943
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1065 | Page: 3 | Tags: none