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Description: | Concept: empire / commonwealth, civilian effort, civilian personnel, women / womens work, agriculture / food, war loans / savings, shipping, postal services Description: whole: the title is positioned across the top edge, in blue. The text is placed below, in blue and in white held within a blue insert. The seven images are integrated with the text. All set against a white background. image: seven separate images of Ceylonese civilians working for the war effort: two farmers holding up a sample of their crop while leaning on their hoes; a farmer planting his crops; a pile of bank notes and coins; a woman looking happily at a plate of food on a table; a farmer shakes hands with a ship's captain; a selection of vegetables; the same two farmers as in the first image, now holding up the letters 'Rs' (representing the Ceylon currency, the Rupee). text: Double cropping - without intercropping FOOD production is now called DIGGING FOR VICTORY and deep digging is recommended. Every pound of food produced is so much money saved - less your out-of-pocket exs. of course. Five rupees worth of food for one rupee helps you, helps shipping and helps the War effort - but where does the Saving go? Put that Saving into CEYLON SAVINGS CERTIFICATES ... and get a second crop One of the few cases when you eat your Cake and keep it - and it earns Tax-free interest too FULL PARTICULARS AVAILABLE AT:- THE GENERAL TREASURY POST OFFICES BANKS COMMISSIONER, WAR SAVINGS MOVEMENT, DOUBLE THE CROP P.O. BOX 541, COLOMBO CEYLON WAR SAVINGS MOVEMENT S. G. O. 16. 12. 42. Object: hoe, vegetable, bank note, coin, table | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Publisher/Sponsor: Ceylon War Savings Movement | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5137... | Go to resource |
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