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SEAMEN DIG FOR VICTORY

... SEAMEN DIG FOR VICTORY NOT content with helping to defend the ships carrying food to this country, the men of the Maritime Regiment devote much of their leisure on land between voyages cultivating an allotment for food production. Their enthusiasm is ...

Published: Monday 15 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Permanent Plots Called For

... conference in London yesterday. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr R. S. Hudson, told the conference that a survey of the Dig for Victory campaign taken by his Department showed that 96 per cent, of allotment holders wanted to continue after the war. ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

W.R.I. ONE-DAY SCHOOL

... and Miss Murray, Lonaoh, as Press secretary. After lunch at the British Restaurant, many of the delegates visited the Dig for Victory Exhibition at the Music Hall, where the Federation had a stall displaying bottled fruits and vegetable jams, pickles ...

Published: Tuesday 23 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Cryptic Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Nice penalty. (4) 8. It doesn't mean something extra for th« drivers' tea. ..

... useful, come to think it. (6) 17. Attack. (6) 15. Part 9 . (4) 19. Broken gate and there's lion about. (8) 21. one cant dig for victory. (10) 22. Young things. (4) DOWN 2. How not to leave a friend. words) (2, 3, 5) 3. Place note. (4) 4. Skill in strand ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 159 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORLD FACING GRAVE FOOD STRAITS

... speaking in Edinburgh on Saturday when the Scottish Gardens and Allotments Committee inaugurated their new season's Dig for Victory campaign Who can tell, he said, what desperate straits we shall all be in ere the Nazi brutalities and their terrors ...

Published: Monday 18 October 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTS GIRLS DO THEIR BIT

... they rely on camp concerts, films and plays. Many go in for study on their free evenings; others help the R.A.F. boys to dig for victory on spare bits of ground around the airfield. Not one complained of homesickness—but maybe this is because their W.A.A ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Tuesday night. official observations have been received in London, I learn, from any of the neutral European ..

... war were being keenly watched, and that no shortage was expected. The London Letter Kemsley House, W.C.I. T ONDONERS dig for victory in unexpected places. One of the busiest men in London, a distinguished engineer and an old member of the London Scottish ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 903 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

digging lor Victory e are winning, but don't relax. Don t stop Don't neglect those gardens and allot- have helped

... digging lor Victory e are winning, but don't relax. Don t stop Don't neglect those gardens and allot- have helped the Nation s food So muc h during four years of war. Get - ground in good shape. And aim for an bigger crop yield. Batchelor's Canned and ...

Published: Monday 25 October 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 87 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Unwanted Onions

... dispose of allocations. One obvious reason for the surprisingly limited demand is the substantial extent to which digging for victory has resulted in allotment holders growing onions, shallots and leeks. An inquiring greengrocer was told in effect. ...

Published: Friday 22 October 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

‘Permanent’ Plots Plea

... praised the allotment-holders and gardeners for their fine display, and commended them for the work they are doing in the dig-for-victory campaign. Mr G. Maitland. president, was in the chair, ana prizes were handed over by Mrs J. D. S. Stuart. Cup-winners ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN REPLY TO YOURS..

... Iren.e Masson, Woodhurn. Whitehouse.— Gardening ought to be a real link between you and the Hut Folk, because we are digging for victory for all we are worth. That was a grand contribution you got from your concert. Congratulations. We hope you still have ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A Page from a Wartime Toiler's Garden Diary

... always tended to monopolise the leisure of those who adopted it as a hobby. To-day, when that dreadfully banal phrase digging for victory conveys the sense of a patriotic duty, .and when at the same time every right-thinking able-bodied citizen is devoting ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1505 | Page: 2 | Tags: none