FORTY MILLION POPPIES.
Last year’s demand in Britain for poppies on Poppy Day, November 11, was expected by’ the British Legion to approach forty millions. Owing to the serious fire in tlie warehouse last May, when twenty-two million poppies, all made by Jvar disabled men, were destroyed, there were fewer silk poppies for sale. It yvas stated that “it is of great importance that this tact should not prejudice the success of the collection, and an earnest appeal is made to those who in normal circumstances, buy the more expensive poppies. It was hoped they will help by taking whatever poppies tire available, and that they will pay for them not only with their customary generosity, but with a little added generosity, remembering that 1932, a bad year for most people, has been a very terrible one lor for those on whose behalf poppies are sold.”
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 2
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