Potatoes for the Troops
“Everyone is asking what they can do to assist the war effort—why don’t you plough up Nelson and McLean Parks and plant potatoes for the camps,” slated an Invercargill visitor to Napier. “This would be an effort in which every able-bodied man could take part, and the result would be fully appreciated by Ihc Government,” he stated. Continuing, the visitor stated that Invercargill had set a fine example to the rest of the Dominion by ploughing its parks and planting potatoes, and, as a result of this effort, many hundreds of tons of potatoes had been sent to the Burnham and other camps for consumption by the troops.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 11
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112Potatoes for the Troops Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 11
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