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SHALDON SHOW

... SHALDON SHOW Dig For Victory Cup For Best Allotment Entries for the eleventh annual Shaldon flower show were well up to the usual standard of quality, but were not quite as numerous as in previous years.' The judges were Messrs. Cousins and Kingford ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOMATO SPRAYING

... nearly as efficient and less trouble to mix. j Bordeaux and Burgundy Mix- Hires, the formulae for which are given in Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 9, should be used at a slightly weaker strength for tomatoes than potatoes (say three-quarter strength). Burgundy ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POTATO GROWING

... allotments and private gardens. The Minis.ry of | Agriculture's advice is—follow the j cropping plan printed in its free | Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 1, which 1 provides for three 30-foot rows of earlies and six 3J-foot rows of main crops on a 10 red plot ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEST HILL EFFORT

... branch committee elected to carry out the programme. The Chairman said the subcommittee appointed to arrange for a Dig for Victory Vegetable. Fruit, and Flower Show, to be held in August, had met and drawn up a schedule, which consisted of 55 classes ...

Published: Thursday 22 April 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GARDEN NOTES-

... study all the available gardening literature. The Ministry of Agriculture issues a -By Eloc Lefreyn splendid series of Dig for Victory leaflets (free to gardeners), and a number of bulletins. The County Library will also help you by supplying a choice ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GARDEN NOTES-

... When and where conditions permit, continue digging. Keep off the ground when it we,; soil, it of the heavy type, will poach and cake into lumps which even the hardest frost will not disintegrate. To try to dig hard, frosty ground is absurd; besides being ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FANCY DRESS PARADE

... years— Mr. Churchill (Derick Hopgood), Trampin' Jan (Gordon Fanson). Special prize for most topical costumes. Girls— Dig for Victory (Sylvia Braund). Boys Mr. Churchill (Derek Frances). There were over 100 entries. A certiiicate awarded to the parish ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Postbridge Items

... attracted a high standard, the peak being reached two wonderful decorated bicycles. Red Cross. Miss Johnstone, and Dig for Victory, Mr. R. White. Mr, Wakeham and the masters and mistresses and boys of Pinewood School helped most devotedly, Mr. Robinson ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 455 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHIMPLE FETE

... the characteristics of the Prime Minister, including the inevitable cigar. Jean Hawkins was second, and Peter Quick (Dig for Victory) third. Other awards: —Home-made costume: Equal 1. Hugh Cornish and Carol Barlow; 2. Joyce Gillard; 3. John Shepherd ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

UNCLE FRED'S YOUNG FOLKS' LEAGUE

... Champion to send congratulations to our new one. I see you have joined the A.T.C and are also helping your father to dig for victory. Pleased to- hear from you any time. CHRISTINE WALTER. I am pleased to be able to promote you to a Captaincy and hope ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

District News

... the Women's Section be allowed to have stall for the sale of articles made by disabled men at the branch's forthcoming Dig for Victory vegetable, flower and fruit show, and this was unanimously agreed to. The president (Mr. V. P. Spurway) stated that he ...

Published: Friday 16 July 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1135 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHOW & GARDEN PARTY

... Molton At South Molton,-on August Bank Holiday, a successful J show and garden party took place, in aid of the Mayor's Dig for Victory Fund' for South Molton Cottage Hospital. Staged in the spacious grounds and gardens of the George Hotel, by kind permission ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1943
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1158 | Page: 5 | Tags: none