POPPY DAY
POSIES FOR GRAVES
WREATHS FROM ENGLAND
The Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association has arranged to hold Poppy Day on April 24 this year and on that date a large number of Flanders poppies will be offered to the public. The proceeds from the sales are to be devoted to the assistance of distressed ex-servicemen and their dependants.
The association is also arranging to prepare approximately one thousand posies on Friday, April 24, and these will be placed on soldiers' graves at Karori after the Anzac Day service at the Cenotaph on April 25. Bunches of flowers, or rosemary will be welcomed by the association on the Friday as workers will be at the association's rooms in Victoria Street during that day to make up the posies. The Rotary Club is being asked to provide cars as in former years to carry the posies to the cemetery, and also to transport the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts who place the flowers on the graves.
The system of issuing paper badges imprinted with a poppy to schoolchildren will again be followed and if any of the children contribute pennies these will be used to make poppy wreaths for use on Anzac Day.
It is understood that a wreath is being sent to New Zealand by Lady J.ellicoe and the usual wreath is expected from General Sir lan Hamilton. These wreaths will be placed on the Cenotaph on Anzac Day.
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Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 14
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238POPPY DAY Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 14
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