MORE VEGETABLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25300, 10 August 1943, Page 3

MORE VEGETABLES

DOMINION’S COMMITMENTS APPEAL TO HOME GROWERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. By growing the greatest possible supply of vegetables in their home gardens, the people could help in one more way to contribute to and to speed the day of victory, said the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, in a broadcast to-night in connection with the "Dig for Victory" campaign. Mr Fraser recalled that at the outbreak of war New Zealand pledged itself to supply Britain with the greatest quantity of food it could spare, and said that in the first three years of war the Dominion shipp'ed to the Mother Country 1,666,000 tons of butter, cheese, and meat—a wonderful achievement in production by New Zealand’s primary producers. When America entered the war New Zealand undertook another great responsibility—to feed as far as its resources would allow the forces assembled in the South Pacific. One of the splendid achievements of the Dominion had been its record in the production of food for the war effort. Mr Fraser added. To-day the demands upon, the Dominion were even greater and the country was challenged to work with even greater energy. In the coming year New Zealand had undertaken to supply almost twice as much food to the Pacific area as previously. To meet these needs the Government had established thousands of acres of vegetable farms, but even tlje output from these, combined with that of the market gardens, would not meet the present requirements. It therefore behoved all citizens to help to alleviate the position and support the " Dig for Victory ” campaign. ’