The Queen is a member of Britain's Village Institutes and pays her 25. a year membership fee as do. all the ther 390.000 members in the 5,708 village branches. So Her Majesty will play her part in the great nation-wide scheme for saving tens of thousands of tons of fruit and turning, it into jam, which has been thought out by a oman, secretary of the Agricultural Committee of the National Federation of Women's Institutes.
The scheme has now been officially adopted and Miss Edith Walker has been heartily congratulated on "a jolly good job of work" by our Minister of Food. The scheme Is based on the The other side of the picture is not such a happy one. Two of our most famous living novelists, and a popular film star are missing in France. Mr. Somerset Maugham's home is at Cap Ferrat, on the French Riviera, but Mr, Maugham was sitting in his pet cafe in Paris three days. before the enemy entered the capital. He told a friend that he would not move is thought that he may now be travelling a roundabout way to England, Mary Borden was known to be i central France about ten days ago. At that time her husband, General E. L. Spears, liaison officer between the British ahd French Governments, vas with the French Government.
another part of the country. He has since returned to England. The dea of ce-operative gathering and preserving to save wastage in small gardens, allotments and orchards remote from commercial canning centres, Recently, 197 jam depots" have been set up and financed with £3,000 from the Carnegie Trust, in 38 coun-les. One hundred thousand cans, thousand gross.of bolties and hundreds of hand-sealing machines have been bought and since March village women have been given intensive training in jam-making, the pulping and drying of fruit and vegetables. Some jam depots will do all the preserving for six to eight villages.
Ta Scotland mobile units will visit the scattered population. Fruit is to be bought from the grower at an agreed price, and trained women vill make it ili a central kitchen, thus
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