PIGS FOR VICTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 7

PIGS FOR VICTORY

LONDON STREET ORGANISED

"In a neat Chelsea side street recently I was puzzled to see a procession of smart women carrying buckets and parcels," writes a correspondent in the London "Daily Sketch." "I followed them to one of Burnstall Street's front gardens where three dust bins stood in a row. The whole of this street has got together to feed 20 pigs for victory.

"The idea was first suggested by Mrs. Mathew Holmes, slim, smart, silver-haired New Zealand woman. She told me she put up a notice asking people round about to bring their scraps to her front garden. The response was so enthusiastic that Mrs. Holmes got porters from neighbouring blocks of fiats to join in. A pig farmer who owns 200 animals calls four times weekly.

"Having tackled this problem successfully Mrs. Holmes turned her attention to another job. She heard that scrap metal was needed, so asked people to drop old razor blades, keys, locks, badges, and brass buttons through her letter-box. Neighbours, in their enthusiasm, began bringing iron bedsteads. When the letter-box proved inadequate Mrs. Holmes borrowed an empty house for storage purposes.

"She acquired her efficiency in the last war when she was president of the Women's National Reserve," the writer comments-