POPPY DAY RECEIPTS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27924, 22 March 1956, Page 14

POPPY DAY RECEIPTS

TRANSFERS TO COMFORTS FUND TO CEASE

A 1954 resolution directing that 25 per cent, of net Poppy Day receipts be set aside for hospital comforts was rescinded by members at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association last evening. “This executive is an unwilling member of a nation-wide scheme for hospital comforts to certain institutions, supplied to another organisation,” said an executive member. Mr Graham MacMillan.

“There is nothing to stop our hospital committee visiting our own men,” he said, answering charges from the floor that visiting to the Cashmere Sanatorium had been/stopped by the executive.

Mr MacMillan said that when the resolution was passed he had been in Dunedin; otherwise he would have challenged it on the ground that it was contrary to the association’s rules. The resolution should have been n °thmg more than a recommendation. ‘The president should never have accepted the motion,” he said.

“I made an error in accepting the motion,” said Mr G. D. Hattaway. “At no time have we stopped hospital comforts. Thirteen hundred pounds went to hospital comforts this vear. We have any amount we are authorised to transfer from funds should the need arise.”

Mr Hattaway said that with a continual 25 per cent, transfer a large fund of useless money would mount up.