POPPY DAY SALES

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 10

POPPY DAY SALES

£938 in Wellington ‘ COST OF EMBLEMS Poppy Day this year returned £938 18/74 to the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, compared with £B5B 14/11 last year, which represents about 20.000 emblems. The secretary, Mr. .1. Spence, reporting on the day to the executive last night, expressed the opinion that, everything epnsidered. the effort was excellent. Tiie Rev. W. Bramwell Scott said he understood that, in comparing the total with the greater amounts collected in Christchurch and Dunedin, one had to bear in mind that commissions were allowed in those places. The chairman, Colonel A. Cowles, and the secretary remarked that expenses in Wellington were practically nil. Mr. Spence said that the Dunedin association’s area was much larger than that in which the Wellington association operated. Colonel R. H. Rowland raised the question of the amount the poppies cost the association (3d.), and in the subsequent discussion it was pointed out that the money for poppies went to the disabled returned soldiers who made them. Suggestions that material could be saved by simpler emblems being sold and that they could be made locally, instead of being obtained from other towns, were made, but the discussion was dropped when the chairman suggested that the subject he left to the next executive.