POPPY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 22629, 22 April 1937, Page 10

POPPY DAY

ANNUAL STREET APPEAL TO-MORROW EMBLEM OF REMEMBRANCE “Buy a poppy, please?” will be the request* that will meet people in Dunedin in the streets of the city and suburbs to-morrow. Through the sale of poppies year by year the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association has been enabled to give some measure of relief to many who, through war disabilities, have been unable to compete on the ordinary labour market, and the public response has always been generous. All arrangements for the annual appeal tomorrow have been completed, and the organiser (Mr O. L. Ferens) is confident that the public of Dunedin will support the cause as liberally as they have in past years. For sale throughout the province the association has no fewer than 56,000 poppies, about 6,000 more than were offered last year. The total amount collected last year was £2,419 Is 6d, all of which was spent for the benefit of disabled men. The public will again have the opportunity of purchasing small poppies at the sum of one shilling each, and large poppies at two shillings each, and in addition there will be a large number of poppy emblems for sale to school children for any sum less than one shilling. This year the poppies will have emerald green tags to distinguish them from those of other years, and collectors will wear official badges. There will also be offered for sale tomorrow for the first time crosses of remembrance, these talking the form of a small wooden cross with a poppy affixed. Two additional stands, one at Dawson’s Corner and the other at the A.M.P. Corner, will be provided on this occasion for the sale of the crosses of remelnbrance, Iwhich, however, may be purchased at any of the other stalls. Special sand boxes will be provided at the foot of the fallen soldiers’ memorial in the Queen’s Gardens for those who wish to place their crosses there any time from Saturday onwards. Others may desire to place them, on soldiers’ graves in the cemeteries. The poppies to be offered for sale tomorrow have been made by disabled returned soldiers in New Zealand. Since November 11, 1919, the Flanders poppy has blazed a vivid trail stretching from its own native heath right round the world, encircling the globe like a vast scarlet wreath. In every part of the world where Britons are gathered together it speaks its message of remembrance and service—remembrance of the sacrifice of the million young British lives and service to those who, years after the signing of the Armistice, are yet smuggling with the consequences of the world upheaval ox 1914-1918. , . The collection will be commenced in the streets at 7 o’clock to-morrow morning and will b© continued till 6 p.m. In addition, there will be a house-to-house canvass in the suburbs during the morning. . „ . , u Following is a list of the stalls in tne main, streets and districts, with the names of those in charge Jacobs’s Corner.—-Mrs J. L. Napier. Grand Hotel Corner.—Mrs H. L. Paterson. Stock Exchange.—Mrs E. Dobson, Mrs M. Glover, ladies of the 1.0.0** • Methven’a Corner.—Legion of i'fontiersmen. ' ; V , ... . , Bank of New Zealand. —Miss Anderson, Girl Guides. Stewart Dawson’s. —Mrs Rust. City Hotel.—Miss M. Allan, First Church Young Women’s Club. Falconer’s Corner. —Y.W.O.A. H.B. Corner.—Mrs Thomson, Australian Imperial Forces’ Social Club. Strand Corner.—Mrs Davis,'St, John Ambulance Nursing Division. Sprosen’s Corner, —Mrs R. S. Anderson. _ _ , Penrose’s Corner. —The Salvation Hanover street.—Disabled soldiers. Frederick street. —Miss Glendimng. Duke street. —Mrs Sid. Clark. Gardens.—Mrs Ferguson. Cargill’s Corner—Mrs Dyer, Mrs A. Duncan. Y.M.C.A. —Mrs Wraight. Forbury Corner. —Mrs Reddfell. Stafford and Manse streets.—Miss B. Allan, Service group of combined old girls, secondary schools. Dunedin Railway Station.—Mrs Ogden. Dawsons Did. —Disabled soldiers, A.M.P. Corner. —Disabled soldiers. Anderson’s Bay.—Mr A. J. Williams, Every street. Tainui. —Mrs Abernethy, 25 Rawhiti street, care Mrs Darracott, 66 Royal Crescent, Musselburgh, 5.2. Belleknowes.—Mrs Berry, 107 Kenmu re -road. Caversham.—The Rev. Sullivan, the Manse, 1 Hazel Avenue. Dalmore. —Miss Hayward, Pine Hill road. Dunedin Central South.—Mrs Cowie (W.D.F.U.), 115 Musselburgh Rise. Dunedin North.—Mrs Hiett, 11 Duke street. St. Kilda, South Dunedin, Musselburgh.—Mrs Rust, 48 Council street (St. Kilda Council Chambers). Dunedin North-west. —Imperial ExserVicemen’s Association. Kaikorai and Wakari. —Mrs Dobson, 30 County road. Leith Valley and Woodhaugh.—Mrs Ski. Clark, 29 Malvern street. Maori Hill.—Mrs P. S. Anderson, Como street. Mornington. Mrs Hook, 13 Josephine street, S.W.I. i North-east Valley.—Mrs Rigby, Gardens. Opoho.—The Rev, Hogg, Signal Hill road. Roslyn.—Mrs H. L. Paterson, 18 Sheen street, Mrs Park, 12 Garfield Avenue. St. Clair.—Mrs O. P. Williams, 172 Victoria road.