KING’S VEGETABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 March 1942, Page 3

KING’S VEGETABLES

APPEAR IN COLOUR FILM Wartime gardeners in Buckingham Palace grounds and in Londons working class districts are the stars of I a colour film which has just been rei leased (writes a London corresponI dent). The film shows the public how | not only 'these gardeners, but A.R.P. workers, schoolboys, hospital patients and housewives are joining in the “Dig for Victory” campaign in Britain’s 5,000,000 private gardens. It is probably the first garden newsreel, certainly the first in colour. A second colour film deals with I vegetable pests, while a third about ’itomato -growing will help British gar- ' deners to replace the tomatoes usually imported from the Channel Isles. Shots of successful tomato growing on the roof of a cinema, in the yard of a public house and outside shops are ishdwn in this film. 1 Lecturers are on tour with the films answering questions put by audiences. Last year they had 800 meetings in large towns and small villages, whfere they spoke to 50,000 people.