An appeal for volunteers to come forward and turn the ground in gardens where the breadwinner has been taken away, in order to help the womenfolk with the growing of vegetables, was made by Col. R. Chapman, speaking last night at a meeting in the Ocean Road Congregational Church Hall, South Shields, organised by the Town Council in support of the grow more food campaign.
Ald. J. Chuter Ede, MP for South Shields, and Mr JW Cassels Director of Agriculture for the County of Durham, were the other speakers. Stressing the change in the food growing position in South Shields since the last war.
Col Chapman said that, in addition to the allotment holders, more than 4,000 people living in Corporation houses, and between 1,500 and 2,000 in owner-occupied houses, were growing food.
