... don t take it as authentic,” added Alderman Holmes. Congratulating the Association on their work, the Mayor said. ” Digging for victory has been necessary for many years and there is need for me to emphasise the necessity of today. Whatever hours you work ...

... year. ORGANISING ALLOTMENT HOLDERS THE North Wales County Com- 1 mittees of Garden Produce who did splendid work in the Dig-for- Victory Campaign and who since the war have almost doubled the number of clubs have decided to establish a federation of all ...

... NORTH WALES A Move in the Right Direction During splendid was the of various coun ties auspices of Ministry Agriculture Dig for Victory” paign an unqualified was an slogan a further inspiration with tliat the number of Gardening Clubs Village Associations ...

... DIGGING FOR DEAR LIFE There was also the problem »f agriculture, for the natives lived by the product of their own labour. During the war we in this country were told to dig for victory, but the East African had to dig for dear life, which was oflen ruined ...

... interested in gardening, Mr Davies assisted in the Dig for Victory campaign during the war years by organising school gardening when he was teaching At Abercynon School and supervising the digging up of part of the school playground for conversion into ...

... there is incentive lacking, as compared with the war years when, despite longer hours of work .nearly everybody was “digging for victory In some ways, from the allotment-holder’s point of view, the present situation is welcome inasmuch as there is justification ...

... in real danger and faced with • food shortage. the people were called upon to grow more food, dig every inch of ground. dig for dear life, and dig for victory. Whitehall called with no uncertain voice, and the people rose stuckrally. To this day the yand ...

... in fact many of them magnificently did during the war years—in their allotments and gardens. Since those days when digging for victory waa as great a patriotic effort as Home Guarding and Civil Defence, the townsman has been rather backsliding. He has ...

... live.' • How does that fit the modern idea of a spiv? nent place in the flower market. In thme parts many answered the Dig for Victory call made during the war years, and the urge to raise a certain amount of produce from the allotment and back garden ...

... when Mr 1. V. Stewart made another presentation to Worthing Sea Scouts. During the war Mr Stewart, in answer to the Dig for Victory call, extended his market garden. It was the extra profit, which he says he would not have made had it not been for ...

... E. S NORFOLK Dig For Victory Aids Sea Cadets Gift Of £l,OOO Wartime Dig for Victory casupaigas have errant that Worthing idea Cadets have beret put is a position to pay off the mortgage their headquarters, the I.S. Vangua rd. This is how it happened ...

... Estates, Markets and Baths Committee. During the war he was Chairman of the Lands Cultivation Committee and led the Dig for Victory campaign, during which thousands of new allotments were opened. He arranged lectures for allotment-holders in every ...