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COUNCIL'S APPEAL

... officer of Ministry called him and an form for contract was Tl application had now been turned down We are told to Dig for Victory, remarked Mr. Harris, but when w e make an offer we are refused. cannot get rid of the produce of an acre of our allotment ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOLD BACHELOR M.P

... they know is the sodden pap produced by overboiling unprotesting vegetables in a bath of water. He was speaking at a Dig for Victory conference in London, and confessed to doing a little cooking himself. Urging people to study the recipes issued by the ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FUTURE OF FARMING

... the circumstances to the district sub-committee. Reporting on the 1942-43 demonstration allotments in support of the Dig for Victory campaign, Mr. D. .Manning, county horticultural superintendent stated that eight local authorities and allotment associations ...

Published: Thursday 02 September 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Our Wild Flowers Sir,—May I plead the case for the preservation of our wild flowers? At agricultural shows all over

... conscripts? tne 3 From the P^ to be young married apparently, to *n? . their wives and childly»| others content only' and dig for victory The war has proved is indispensable, and jJ, am correct in State has-the right to efl , policemen to duty. , i /m about ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Festivals In The Duchy

... how the use the word Victory creeping into use in connection with garden shows. I don't forget, of course, that all along we have been urged to Dig for victory. That slogan, coined as it was in the darker days, suggested that victory might be a long way ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 965 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GARDENING. QUTHBERT'S QARDEN QFFERS. SEED SHORTAGE. I read that there is a shortage of Vegetable Seeds and that ..

... their requirements Now whatever may be the origin of these statements, which, incidentally, are very damaging to the Dig for Victory' Campaign, I want to make it known in the strongest possible manner that there is no shortage CUTHBERT'S FAMOUS VEGETABLE ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 887 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Self-Supporting R.A.F

... spare-time job it has been grow them. Under the inspiring leadership the chief administrative officer, the camp has been digging for victory in a big way for the past 18 months. During that time 47 acres of rough land have been cultivated. LAND GIRLS HELP. ...

Published: Tuesday 21 December 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOTES IN THE WEST

... criticize. Allotment-holders deserve all the encouragement they receive. Digging for victory, with so many competing ■ duties and interests, is something very different from digging for pleasure In peacetime. is hard work, often coming on top of other c- ...

Published: Tuesday 19 October 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 659 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NOTES IN THE WEST

... weeds and hedge parings by gardening enthusiasts in the Westcountry have been frequent recently. While they are busy digging for victory. they sometimes neglect to make sure that their fires are extinguished before they retire. Two recent cases concerned ...

Published: Monday 24 May 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. TrELL, SHE %/% / SAID BRISKLY, V that's all there is to isn't it ? I'll leave

... I know. She drew on a pair of heavy leather gloves over roughened and weather-beaten hands (we guessed she'd been digging for victory) and turned towards the door. Then suddenly she swung back. Doyou know she said, I am really very sad. Silly, of ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 779 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ♦ departure a mission of murder ana rapine it is aJ choice exampie complete perversion the

... plugs &c can have been eight fish each in the past three years on the Tavy. Why should not this wasted energy be put to digging for victory, keeping rabbits, and helping the hardworked farmers? FLYMAN. Yelverton, Jan. 23. THE MODERN CRITIC Order Anything ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2140 | Page: 4 | Tags: none