POPPY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 23862, 17 April 1941, Page 6

POPPY DAY

DISPOSITION OF STALLS NEARLY 48,000 SYMBOLS FOR DISTRIBUTION The Poppy Day Committee of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, under the chairmanship of Mr A. Duncan, has completed all arrangements for tomorrow’s sale of poppies, and these will be on sale from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. As usual, poppies will be sold in the city from street stalls and by means of suburban house-to-house canvasses, carried ont by special groups in the various localities. In some of the districts as many as 65 workers will be engaged in the sale of the symbol of remembrance. In all, 47",500 small size and 200 large size poppies have been prepared for distribution throughout the province. The district under the control of the Dunedin Association stretches from Clinton to Palmerston, and embraces the whole of Central' Otago, with the exception of Queenstown (which comes into the Southland area), as far distant as the Haast Pass. The principal city stalls and those in charge are: Jacobs’s Corner, Mrs W. P. Forrester; Grand Hotel Corner, Mrs H. L. Paterson; Stock Exchange, Mrs ID. Dunn (1.0.0. F.); Government Tourist Office Corner, Mrs G. R. Mitchell (Legion of Frontiersmen); Stewart Dawson’s Corner, Dunedin Free Kindergarten; City Hotel Corner, Miss Struthers (First Church Young Women’s Club) ; Falconer’s Corner, Moray Place, Y.W.C.A.; H.B. Corner, Mrs A. Duucan (A.1.F.); Strand Corner, Mrs Gear (St. John Ambulance Association); Sprosen’s Corner, Mrs P. S. Anderson; Penrose’s Corner, Mrs Joss (Salvation Army) : Hanover street. Disabled Soldiers’ Products representatives; Frederick street. Miss Glendining; Duke street, Mrs S. Clark; Gardens, Mrs J. Houston: Cargill’s Corner, Mrs Dyer; Y.M.C.A., Mrs Wraight; Forbury Corner, Mrs A.» S. Bruce .Jmith; Stafford and Manse street Corners, Combined Ex-Girls’ Social Service Group; railway station, Mrs H. Brown (Imperial Ex-Service-men’s Association). Tho district conveners are: Anderson’s Bay, Mr A. G. Williams; Tainui, Mrs Abernethy, Mrs C. J. Darracott; Bellcknowes, Mrs James Haig; Caversham, Rev. A. B. Pywell; Dalmore, Miss Hayward; Dunedin Central, Mrs J. B. Stewart; Dunedin North, Mrs Hiett (W.C.T.U.); Dunedin Northwest, Mr H. Brown (Imperial Ex-Ser-vicomen’s Association); _ Kaikorai South, Mrs Dawson; Wakari, Mrs G. Swan; Leith Valley and Woodhaugh, Mrs Sid. Clark; Maori Hill. Mrs J. M. White and Mrs S. G. Scoular; Morniirntou, Rev. W. J. Hands and Mrs Hook; North-east Valley, Mrs P. Garden (W.C.T.U.); Opoho, Rev. H. Dunn; Roslyn, Mrs H. L. Paterson; St. Clair, Mrs C. L. Calvert and Mrs E. J. Anderson; St. Kilda and Musselburgh. Mrs D. M. Lister and Mrs GWldiug; South Dunedin, Major Allott: Kensington, Mrs Stevens. All financial arrangements are in the hands of Mr A. D. Thomas.