Page 12 ATLANTIC VOICE SATURDAY, 17 th March 1945.
BULLETINS FROM BRITAIN re the supply.
are PLANNING CYPRUS ORANGES NO FRILLS, MADAM, SALUTE TO AGED COCOA TREE VICTORY MAY GO TO BRITAIN raw cocoa.
THIS SPRING Arbor Weekhas been cele 53 year old tree, still War time shsipping shorta HARVEST brated in Cyprus with all Before the war, spring going strong, has been hon ges and the closing of over IN The Women Land Army due solemnities, including a was the season when desig oured in the Gold Coast. Its seas markets would have faltook len hardly on African cocoa is again calling for recruits. ceremonial tree planting by ners launched elaborate new fruit cocoa podsthe farmers if the British GovBritain farmers have been the daughter of the Acting fashions. Now with war still pride of place among Governor. The week forms to win told there can be no letting manufacturers exhibits of the recent great ernment had not stepped in up on the strenuous efforts parts of the island wide pu must still choose their de Akwapim African Agricul with a bulk buying scheme blicity campaign for more signs within the limits of tural and Craft Show. Every year the Ministry of they have been required to tree planting. Already in o austerity restrictions. It has It was among the first of Food has paid the farmers make to achieve maximum ne war year some 434. 000 been officcially announced the cocoa trees introduced for their cocoa crops, altL food production. Labour is trees have been planted that these resttictions on the into British West Africa in hough usually not all of it still as scarce as ever, and almond, olives, the Women citrus fruit making of civilian clothing the days of Queen Victoria. is needed for cocoa drinkers, Land Army trees and forest trdes suita cannot, at present, be Since then, the Gold Coast and chocolates, of course, continues to be one of the ble to the Mediterranean moved.
with Nigeria has become the are rationed in Britain.
principal sources of supply, climate.
Volunteers are urgently Great quantities of cocoa In what way does this ef supplier of half the world The Cyprus forestry drive fect you, as you plan just have been stored in West needed for all types of work. kills three birds with Field workers, general farnstone. Tree growing helps to to get the best long term re stitching and embroidery are ways, as coca butter or cocoa workers, market gardeners prevent soil erosion by bin sults? One useful effect, now not allowed, and gathers are soap, by the Africans then one how to spend your coupons or imitation pockets. Fancy frica to be used, in new mand particularly milkers forest trees, suplied as sa work of two or three pre and milkers are all inde ding the soil together. Then that one frock has to do the strictly limited to those that helves, and as food for the Milk production has inerea plings from the Agricultural give necessary fullness.
liberated people of Europe.
sed, but so has consumption. Departament nurseries, pro we non startling changes of the detailed regulations 9, 714 HORSES ON war ones, there These The health of the nation de vide fuel otherwise in short fashion in this year clot which have saved thousands pends very largely on skill of the farmer and his Lastly, the continual rene have shown how successfully haps even WAR WORK hes. British manufacturers of yards of cloth and, per assistants in the cowshed ma wing of orchards will keep more important, 9, 714 horses are working ny of whom are Land Girls, the Cyprus fruit industry they can design attractive, thousands of hours of labour for the railways, saving prt Hours may be long and ready for post war export. practical clothes within the during the last few years. cious supplies of petrol ana week end fewer than in Already, with the casing bounds of these restrictions, The reason why they must rubber.
other branches, but for the of Mediterranean transport, and British women have be continued is that the need Nearly all are employed giorl who is fond of ani the Ministry of Food has en welcomed this war time sim to save material and man on cartage work. Others do le mals there is a fascination in tered into negotiations for plicity.
power is still acute. Service an equally important job in la the work which keeps her at the buying of Cypriot oran Austerity restrictions, demands exceedingly wagon marshalling yards, it, secure in the knowledge ges for Britain.
planned to save cloth and heavy, for jungle equipment drawing railway barges a that she is a key woman on labour, affect the trimmings has now to be provided for long canals and inland wae the food front.
FREEDOM WISELY of your clothes rather than our armies in the Far East. terways, and on railwayField or market garden their style. Your skirts may Clothes must be ready in ad owened farms.
work offers a variety of ocUSED not be pleated all round, but vance for the men who will There are railway veteri cupation changing with the you can still have four be demobilised. Faced with nary establishments for sick Man was not created for pleats, each to a depth of se these vital calls on our re horses in London and the season and has the aded at the State. He was made an in.
tractio nof companionship dividual with the freedom to the heartiest walker plenty the postponement of frills railways spend more htan ven inches, which gives even sources, no one will regret provinces, and each year the where a number of girls are choose between right and of room. You cannot have and frequent changes of 000 medicine for working together in gangs wrong, to create his own com buttons merely for ornament, fashion, them.
There are, too, opportunities munity, to work out a way of to learn the more specialised life along with his fallow men.
jobs, such as tractor driving.
These are the first principles.
pest destruction, fruit spra Throughout history men and ying and pruning. The gir women have fought and died with a gifl with a gift for le to maintain them. They have adership can look forward to been reiterated in this war in a forewoman post carrying the Four Freedoms enunciates higher pay than the basic by President Roosevelt.
Land Army weekly minimum But while man has o duty of 22s. 6d. or 189s. for tho to maintain his own freedom se between 17 and 18. Application for enrolment of choice, he also has the duty must be made through of using it wisely and for the Employment Exchange. The benefit of his fellow men and Women Land Army stands nomen the men and women high on the Ministry of La who form the State. The suc bours list of priorities and cessful community is the one any woman, not otherwise that can find a happy balance exempt, between 17 and 35. Letween the rights of the in who is fully mobile and individual and the needs of the other ways apparently suiration as a whole.
table will be considered for is given at the Government membership. Acceptance de expense.
pends on a personal inter Equipped with a workman view supported by a medical like uniform, the 1945 Land certificate. The urgented Girl goes to join her 63. 000 for labour means that the fellow members on the vi means that there is little de tal task of preparing for lay betwen en Holment and what mag welkoproste teabe Miguel Obregon Lizano dels Desires. Den Londres per una bomba cohete.
posting for training, which Victory Harvest.
on an