POPPY DAY FUNDS

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 5

POPPY DAY FUNDS

DISTRIBUTION TO BOROUGHS.

ASSISTANCE FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

Of the £1100 set aside from the Poppy Day funds for the relief of unemployed amongst ex-servicemen, £700 has been offered to local bodies in the Auckland district to be used preferably on works that will assist materially to beautify the city.

The Mount Albert, Xorthcote, Birkenhead, Devonport and Takapuna Borough Councils have accepted amounts apportioned to their districts on the understanding that they will be subsidised £ for £, while it is expected that the City Council, which is offered £300, and other local bodies will act similarly.

It is expected that relief works will be put in hand almost immediately. The trustees appointed to administer the Poppy Day funds are pursuing a policy of giving work to unemployed returned soldiers in preference to making monetary grants to tide them over their periods of distress. This tends for contentment amongst those who have failen on lean times, for invariably the men desire work before charity. Most of the funds raised under the Poppy Day scheme accordingly have been allocated to finding work for the unemployed, and monetary assistance is being given in only very necessitous cases.

On board the Makura which arrived in \\ cllington on Monday morning on her way to .San Francisco were seventeen delegates from Australia to the World's Baptist Conference, which opens in Toronto next month. The number delegates from this part of the world will be made up to nineteen by the inclusion of two more from New Zealand. Amongst the delegates are the Rev. E. B. \\ oods, the Rev. ISale Harrison, and Mr. John Downing.