TO GROW VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 6

TO GROW VEGETABLES

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In these dark days many women would be better in mind andbody if they felt that they were really doing something useful for the country. Spring is here, and outdoor work is both useful and healthful. There is any amount of vacant land which surely could be used to good purpose by voluntary labour. Hundreds of women would gladly work such plots, | the produce of which could be used I and canned, thus saving much of the | wheat and meat for overseas. There are thousands of strong lads from 10 to 16 at school, and every one of them could do bis bit, if the suggestion be taken up and the scheme organised. If all the boys had a card to be filled in each week of so many hours worked |in these plots, no one would be unduly i taxed, and the total value at the end |of the season would be astounding. lAt practically every women's meeting, [ the practical suggestion is made that more use be made of the gardens. I think, Sir, that every garden should be tilled to the limit of its capacity, j In Germany this is don<?, and the extra health and wealth thus acquired will weigh heavily in the balance should this war drag on for years. I repeat, it is spring now, and such schemes could and should be put into operation immediately.—l am, etc.; WANGANUI.