POPPY DAY FUNDS.

Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 11

POPPY DAY FUNDS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l notice in your issue of the 13th n letter by “ Anzac ” complaining tbat the Returned Soldiers Association is not giving out any work to the returned unemployed soldier out ot Poppy Day funds. T am, like others, waiting for some return out of this collection. I feel the public is not aware that we returned_ men < are not getting any of ibis administration of tile Pojipy Day funds. • I have not had any assistance since October last out of these funds. I was told then that they could not give any more work till after April, so I think it is only fair that the public who subscribe to this money should know what is going to happen to it. Now I am getting is 6d a week sustenance, and ns the winter is coining on a little from the above fund would be a great help to me. I bad four years and 60 days’ active service. —I ami etc., A.N.Z.A.C. No. 2. May 17. [The above letter was referred to the secretary of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association, who stated: “ Although we have received £2,006 to date from the Poppy Day collection, our returns are not yet completed.' In some of the outlying districts it takes some considerable lime for the returns of unsold poppies to reach this office. \\e have some 40,000 poppies to be paid for, end it is estimated that the amount available for disbursement will be -approximately £1.450. Many do not realise that tin's amount is collected throughout the whole of the Otago district, and all unemployed ex-service-

men are looked after by the various sub-associations and committees throughout the district, and the whole of this amount is not available for distribution in the city alone. Individual applications in writing are dealt with by the coihmitee on their respective merits, and no cx-soldier in dire need is turned away.”—Ed. E.S.] MAKOGAI LEPER STATION. TO THE EDItOK Sir,—Mr P. J. Tvvomcy, of Christchurch, who has acted as collector for this fund for some time past, recently made application that co-trustees should, be appointed with him in connection with the Christmas appeal fund. It has now been arranged, after conference between the three departments concerned —the Cook Islands, External Affairs, and the Department of Health —that for the future there shall be established a trust fund for the South Island, of whom Dr T... Fletcher Telford, Medical Officer of Health, and Mr P. J. Twomey, Christchurch, have been appointed trustees. A joint account has accordingly been opened in the Post Office Savings Bank at Christchurch for this purpose, , and Mr Twomey will still continue to act a? collector for this fund.—We are, etc., T. Fletcher Telford, P. J. Twomey, Joint Trustees. Christchurch, May 15.