19 MAY 1933, Page 14

The scope of the allotment garden as organized by the

Society of Friends is as wide as unemployment itself ; and that, alas, is wide indeed. Today about 100,000 unemployed men have garden allotments large, enough to occupy a good part of their time and largely to keep the family in vegetable food. That is the result of four to five years' work. It is regarded as a mere beginning, as a first-fruits. The whole basis of the scheme is to be broadened and new co-operations set on foot between the Friends, the local authorities, rural and municipal, private landowners and, most important of all, the committees who manage the new Recreation Centres for the unemployed that are growing up in all big towns and becoming important in our social organization.

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