ARTIFICIAL POPPIES
LOCAL MANUFACTURE ?
.Drawing attention to an item of .■*3lSf on the Customs Department's estimates representing a refund of duty' on artificial poppies imported by the Returned Soldiers' Association for sale for tlie benefit of returned New Zealand soldiers, the Leader of the Labour Party '•Hfcr. H. E. Holland) suggested in the Itoaw of Representatives early this morning that there was no necessity for the imports £oai of artificial poppies while it was qutc? poss'ble for ex-soldiers ■who were unable I,- A* other work to make them. ...
•The Minister of Customs (the Hon. <T. G. G'obbe) said that the matter would be discussed with the R.S.A. The poppies imported by the association 1] ad ■ been of English manufacture, and it was just possible that the association could not find sufficient skilled meu to make the number of poppies that was required. He believed that a number of' poppies was being made in New Zealand, and possibly that number would be increased.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 9
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ARTIFICIAL POPPIES
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 9
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