NEW RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 10

NEW RECORD.

POPPY DAY APPEAL.

TOTAL OF £2664 THUS FAR.

With returns from three suburban clubs yet to come to hand the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association has received £2004 10/S from its annual Poppy Day appeal—a record since the appeal was first launched. It is estimated that the other throe clubs will raise the total another £50, and that the final figure* will be about £200 above those of last year—the previous record. A separate collection was made this year in Newmarket by the local Returned Soldier*.' Club, which obtained the permission of the Newmarket Borough Council to sell poppies in the borough, the Auckland Returned Soldieis' Association bciim refused authority to do so. The Newmarket total wae £141.

The president of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. Mr. ,T. W. Kendall, expressed hip. organisation's gratitude for the generosity of the public, and said it was satisfactory to find that the people continued to give such eupport to the purpose of the appeal, which was to provide relief among distressed returned men. He also expressed the thank- 1 of the association to the Mayoress. Lady Davis, the members of the various wonvenV; organisations and charitable organisations that had helped to make the appeal so successful.

Ho also expressed his appreciation of the action of six officers of the National Bank of New Zealand who came up to the association rooms last evening and counted the money received.