CONFIDENCE UNIT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 10 July 1942, Page 7

CONFIDENCE UNIT

UNOFFICIAL E.P.S. WORK BENEFIT TO COUNTRY ENCOURAGE MORE GARDENING There are various unofficial services which members of the E.P.S, and other persons can give for the ’benefit of their country. There is no “Confidence Unit” of the E.P.S. but every member can be a solid spreader of confidence. Every member should be a constant carrier of confidence, states an article in the April issue of the E.P.S. Bulletin. The article continues:— Members of the E.P.S. should be also keen encouragers and practitioners of kitchen gardening, which helps to assure emergency supplies of food. Facilities for this purpose are granted by some local ’ bodies. Plenty of ugly vacant sections, privately owned, should be turned into vegetable gardens which, in some cases, could be easily bordered with flowers.

This matter of raising food locally, as one of the war precautions, has worthy mention- in a book, “Air Raids and Civil Defence,” published in Madras, India. “A nation composed of cities and villages where food supply is assured from the surrounding area can resist aggression successfully,” the author states. “It will also help to achieve the correct balance between occupations—industryand food supply and population—and thereby form a stable foundation to civilisation.”