“POPPY DAY” APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 171, 15 April 1933, Page 10

“POPPY DAY” APPEAL

Excellent Response Made by the Public NEARLY £9OO IN SIGHT Thursday was Poppy Day, when the Wellington public was asked through a street appeal to aid returned soldiers in distress. The response was such that nearly £9OO is in sight It says a good deal for the feelings of the general public that few were able to resist the appeal made by the collectors who so willingly assisted the executive of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The weather was fine, and the city streets were thronged with people intent on their week-end shopping. No one was pressed tb contribute. Promptly at 7 a.m. units of women took up their places at pre-airanged stands throughout the city and suburbs, and carried on throughout a busy day until 5 p.m. The money was paid in to the office of the Returned Soldiers’ Association iu Victoria Street, where the secretary, Mr J. Spence, and the members of the executive, were kept hard at work until 9 o’clock in the evening, when the money then to hand was paid into the bank. ... The revenue returns and othr sources were as follow:Stand. £ A ? Bowen Street corner 1 b o Woodward Street corner 06 7 v Kirkcaldio and Stains, and T) I(’ <O 1O WJ General Post Office SS 14 0 Bank of N.Z., Lambton Quaj JI 3 o Hotel St. George corner [>4 ™ Bank of X.Z., -Manners Street 3B 10 7. Courtenay Place bi J ,as Maritime Building and Kelburn Tramway Island Bay In in si Hntaitai « 17 Colleges (Wgtn. Girls’, W gtn. East Girls’, Wgtn. Boys, Technical, and Queen Margnret’s) -el- 7 Xgalp 0 1 Seatoun , ; ", Johnsonville 4 ” Lower Hutt (about) W 0 0 Petene 10 14 2 £791 C 11 . In addition to the above receipts there, are returns still to come in from the Upper Hutt, Eastbourne, Porirua, and Paraparaumu. The results from Lower Hutt and Johnsonville were telephoned through to the R.S.A. headquarters, the total, from the former borough being given as approximate. This should mean a final total of nearly £9OO. All the collecting boxes were sealed up before being issued, and each collector had to sign a receipt for her box as she received it.

The" loss of a collecting box from the Woodward Street stand is reported. The box was empty when it was stolen, but whether it was used by the thief for collecting money was not ascertainable. Those in charge of the stands were:—

. Bowen Street—Mesdames Bramley and Coffin. ~ „ IVoodward Street—Mesdames Parnell and Spence. ■ "' . G.P.O.—-Mesdamea Murphy, M.8.E., and Anslow. ■ , Kirkcalclie and Stains and D.I.C. — St. John Ambulance Association, m charge of Mrs. Guby. Bank of New Zealand (Lambton Quay) —Mesdames Pow and S. Myers, J.P. Hotel St. George—Women’s National Reserve) under Mrs. Beale and Miss Black. Bank of New Zealand (Manners Street) —Mesdames Carroll and RownCourtenay Place—South African Veterans, under Mrs. Goldsmith. Newtown —Mr. S. T. S. Martin. Kelburn Tramway and Maritime Building—New Zealanders’ Association, under Mrs. Hines. ' m , Lower Hutt—Mrs. W. T. Strand. Hataitai—Mrs. Dr. Mcßae and Miss Mcßae. Island Bay—Mrs. Lyon. Seatoun—Mrs. Nicholl. Ngaio—Miss Parsonson. Johnsonville —Mr. F. Beaumont.

On behalf of the executive Mr. Spence wishes to thank all those who assisted in the “Poppy Day” effort. The response, he said; was excellent, and the executive was very sincere in its gratitude to the public and the two broadcasting stations.