SCARLET POPPIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 91, 18 April 1929, Page 10

SCARLET POPPIES.

REMEMBERING THE ANZACSJ

POPPY DAT APPEAL.

COLLECTION TO-MORROW.

Red poppies, on sale in streets in the city and suburbs to-morrow, will remind Aucklandera that Anzac Day is near at hand. Each year the Returned Soldiers' Association makes its Poppy Day appeal on tho Friday preceding the Day of Remembrance, and through the medium of the sale of poppies gathers funds to assist distressd ex-service men and to support various homes for disabled soldiers.

Complete arrangements have been made for the Poppy Day appeal, and the little emblems of Flanders Fields will be distributed by a band of collectors from 7.30 o'clock onwards. Twenty - eight collecting stands will ba set up in the city and suburbs, and a large number of organisations are combining to make, this year's appeal a record. Among these arc the Navy League, the Commercial Travellers' Association, the Ex-Ser-vice Women's Association, the Query Club, the Mutual Club, the St. .John Ambulance., the Victoria League, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Independent Order of Oddfellows, the Young Women's and Young Men's Christin n Associations, the Plunket Society, the Benevolent Society, the Mayoresses <• f Auckland, Newmarket, Mount Eden. Onehtinga, Takapuna, Birkenhead and Mount Albert, and a large number of other helpers.

There will he 50,000 poppies for distribution, and these will he disposed of for 1/ and 2/ft, according to size. Last year the appeal produced £2000. as compared with £1800 the previous year.