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New W.R.I. Officials

... New W.R.I. Officials. SO great has been the response to the Dig for Victory campaign in Scotland during the past three years that saturation point now reached, and growers must concentrate on increased productivity rather than on cultivating new land ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTS ALLOTMENTS

... Scotland has now the 30.000 allotments aimed at by the Scottish Gardens and Allotments Committee when it began its Dig for Victory campaign in April. This statement was made to the committee in Edinburgh. These allotments. Sir Robert Greig stated ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EXCUSE FOR WEEDS

... we might expect of the convener of A the Town Council Cleansing Department. Councillor Thom is doing his bit for the Dig for Victory - campaign. But - outside influences are holding up his efforts in the meantime. He tells me that when he went into his ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ABERDEEN

... ABERDEEN ie Warcry of the Home front- 7 DIG FOR VICTORY' In allotment and garden preparations are non' being made to join in the 'Dig for Victory' Campaign. Unnecessary backache will be avoided if you'll only be sensible. Use the right tools—we have them ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TUX PRESS ATO JOURNAL TUESDAT TORE £MM

... JOURNAL TUESDAT TORE £MM IT’S FUN TO DIG say national garden society rpnt National Allotment and Garden Society hare called for a publicity campaign directed to all houeeholderi with gardens,, like the Dig lor Victory campaign In World War II A resolution ...

Published: Tuesday 09 June 1964
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHERE ARE THEY?

... WHERE ARE THEY? THE paragraph in this column about the Dig for Victory campaign. in which a correspondent referred to a few bits of spare ground suitable centrally whioh are lying idle, prompted a telephone call to me at the week-end from Mr Young, ...

Published: Monday 24 February 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Schoolboys Do More Digging

... Schoolboys Do More Digging Aberdeenshire schoolboys have more than tripled their output in the Dig for Victory campaign since the war began. In 1938-39 the area under cultivation in school gardens in the county was 4.8 acres. In 1939-40 was 12.7 acres ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Any able-bodied man or woman who can obtain access to land and does not take advantage of that to grow

... citizenship and indifferent to winning the war, said Sir Robert. Last year in Scotland. despite a late start to the - Dig for Victory campaign. they nearly doubled the number of allotments in the country. The number was 40.000. What I want is 150.000 ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DM and Gardens

... DM and Gardens ILIVE in a small house with a fairly large garden, Nou 7 the Government ask everyone who can to Dig for Victory. but, and it is a big but, every other householder owns a dog which runs free all day. some all night. The dogs jump over fences ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 79 | 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

Good Example in Food Cultivation

... Good Example in Food Cultivation The garden at the Food Office in Albyn Place, Aberdeen, will play its part in the Dig for Victory campaign. The use of a big piece of ground at the back of the building has been given to the Allotment-Holders' Association ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 5 | Tags: none