SHEFFIELD’S SPADE CLUB
WORK FOR IDLE MEN ' SAVING THE UNEMPLOYED. Sheffield, that famous city of Iron and steel, has suffered severely in the present financial crisis. A large proportion of its able-bodied men are out of work and in great distress of mind and body through their enforced .idleness. }" The depression has led to the foundation of Spade Clubs to find the men something useful to do. The name is given to a new allotments movement. Tiny plots Of land, measuring only 300 square yards, are let out to the unemployed at the nominal rate of 2d a week. For the first two months the men go rent free while they are preparing their land. Each man is lent a spade and provided with packets of seeds of such produce as beans, peas, cabbages, cauliflowers, turnips, and potatoes. Also each allotmentholder is provided with 281 b of artificial manure. It is said that the movement is a great success. For the most part the allotments are well worked, and the women and children are glad to go to them to help and to enjoy the fresh air. In Sheffield, it seems, these wielders of spades are known aa the “ Dig-to-Eat Brigade.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21521, 18 December 1931, Page 12
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