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NO PLACE FOR SNEERS

... to sneer at the sources of universal food supply. They would have to return to the simple things; they would have to dig for victory. The mere . admission that the earth was the elemental source of food was not good !enough. The speaker quoted a passage ...

CORNISH FARMERS WILL HELP

... everyone will grow as much as they can this year and that local authorities and others will continue to foster the Dig for Victory over Want campaign. The National F'armers' Union has issued a call to British farmers to pow as much wheat as Possible ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1946
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE THE GREAT FOOD CRISIS

... be reduced by strenuous efforts on the psrt of people of other nations. Those who responded so well to the call of Dig for Victory are being asked to carry on with their good work. whilst every member of the community can share in the effort to avoid ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: Tewkesbury Register
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 266 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

35-FOOT ROAD FANTASTIC

... Prime Minister on the world food crisis, the Chairman urged all members to revive in their parishes the spirit of the Dig for Victory campaign. It was agreed to send a copy of the letter to all Parish Council chairmen. Mr Tribe said work on houses at ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1946
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Avenue

... where parking la to be prerented when Torquay United are playing. • * • • • A balance of MS in hand from last year's Dig for Victory show is to be used as prise money for Torquay Horticultural Show in the Town Hall on November 13-14th. At present 121 ...

NOTES :: :: ON NEWS

... surrounding potatoes, Precaution., must be taken to exclude light ill storage to prevent greening, and If, keep out frost. Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 13. Storing Potatoeii. - may Is , obtained free of charge from Ilse Minlair). :Writ.,ilture and Fisheries ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1946
Newspaper: Brixham Western Guardian
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOOD SUPPLY PROBLEMS

... of every form of food waste, and secondly by growing as much of our own food as is within our compass. Dig for Victory was the war slogan, Dig to Live is indeed now becoming increasingly true. ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1946
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 512 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OPEN CLASSES

... display. and paid warm tribute to the ordinary nun and women who. through six years of war, had contintied to dig for victory. We have won victory over the enemy. but we hays nut yet won victuty over want. he said. Conditions of Mother Nature have not ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1946
Newspaper: Brixham Western Guardian
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

To-Day's Gossip

... of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, is not a Cheltonian, but he is well-known to all the organisers of the Dig for Victory shows which have been held here during the war years. When the war broke out, the Ministry put him in charge of the campaign ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1946
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 721 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LABOUR FOR HARVEST

... campaign for increased production in gardens and allotments—a Plant for Peace and Plenty campaign to replace the wartime Dig for Victory effort: extensive reploughing of old grassland which green-manured would be ready for cultivation in the autumn; cancellation ...

Published: Tuesday 26 February 1946
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNO'S BIG TASK

... is as an instrument for bringing about a change of heart that U.N.O. can best justify itself. Allotments THE cry of Dig for Victory heard so often throughout the war has led tea greater interest in gardening by the general public and many families in ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1946
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 962 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOOD SITUATION WORSE LORD BLEDISLOE

... J. Phillips proposing a vote of thanks to Lord Bledisloe. said that the Society was formed 1940 connection with the Dig lor Victory campaign and the success achieved was mainly tc the inspiration received from Loid Bledisloe. The show was impressive ...

Published: Monday 19 August 1946
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 3 | Tags: none