VEGETABLE PLOTS

Southland Times, Issue 21852, 1 November 1932, Page 6

VEGETABLE PLOTS

CULTIVATION BY RELIEF WORKERS. COMMITTEE SATISFIED WITH RESPONSE. It was announced to a Times reporter yesterday by the chairman of the Invercargill Gardening Committee (Mr J. D. Gilmore) that arrangements are being made to distribute cabbage plants to all men on relief works who are cultivating gardens. The plants will be issued between 10 a.m. and noon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at the No. 2 Gardens when the men will be required, as proof of their bona fides, to produce their employment cards. Commenting generally on the condition of the men’s plots, Mr Gilmore said that the committee had every reason to be satisfied with the position. The men, he said, appeared to have realized that they could help themselves a good deal by means of a garden and actually it was quite sui-prising to see the excellent gardens at 75 per cent, of the men’s homes. In cases where the men were dilatory in meeting the Unemployment Board’s requirements as to the cultivation of vegetable plots, it had been necessary for the committee to take action and some of the men had been deprived of relief employment. "But,” added Mr Gilmore, “the proportion of these men is very small indeed when taken with those who are making a first-class job of their plots.”