SPLENDID RESPONSE

Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 8

SPLENDID RESPONSE

POPPY DAY COLLEGTSOH—£I,724 A RECORD FOR THE CITY The belief formed yesterday mornins that this year’s Poppy Day collection would be the greatest yet achieved was substantiated last night when the city returns were checked at the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association headquarters. The total for the city and suburbs was £1,724 I2s Bd, an excess of £lB2 2s (id over last year’s record of £1,512 2s Od. There are still several district and school returns to come and these will probably bo available on Monday. Gratification at the results achieved were expressed by the president ol the association (Mr W. K. Cameron) when the figure was announced. The association, he said,, owed everything to the energy and enthusiasm of the band of collectors on whom the real work bad fallen. From early morning until evening' they remained at their task, and their only reward was tho knowledge of the worthy nature of the cause for which they were working. The association had a Poppy Day organisation of which it had every reason to bo proud, and the expeditious manner in which the returns were counted was duo to the co-operation received from the staffs of the National Bank of New Zealand and the Dunedin Savings Bank. Bfr Cameron also expressed the association’s gratitude to the citizens of Dunedin, who, in these difficult times, when calls upon their resources wore far above tho ijormal, had been able to contribute a record collection. The following is the list of returns;— City Stalls.—Jacobsls Corner, £57 4s; Grand Hotel Corner, £69 5s 10(1: Stock Exchange, £72 6s; Government Tourist, £63 15s 4d; City Hotel, £2O 16s 4d ; Falconer’s Corner, £l7 4s lOd; H.B. Corner, £49 7s 6d ; Strand Corner, £35 7s 2d; Sproson’s Corner, £3l 14s Od; Penrose’s Corner, £24 2s 7d; Hanover street. £29 12s Sd; Frederick (street. £6O 17s 2d ; Duke street, £l3 17s Cd ; Gardens Corner, £3l 7s 7d; CarKill’s Corner, £47 19s 6d; Y.M.C.A., £23 2s lid; Forhury Corner, £2l 18s 6d; Stafford and Manse streets. £53 2s ; (railway station, £54 6s Id. Total, £779 ’“s lOd. District Stalls.—Anderson’s Bay, £4l 8s 6d; Tninui, £4B 3s 3d; Belleknowcs, £3O 15s 3d ; Caversham. £65 6s 9d ; Pine Hill, £23 5s 6d; Dunedin Central, £3O 15s 9d; Dunedin North, £73 2s 3d; 'Dunedin North-west, £6l 7s 3d; Kaikorai South, £23 18s 9d; Wakari, £l3; 'Maori Hill, £SB 15s 9d; Mornington, £6l 17s 9d; North-east Valley, £36 18s; 'Opoho, £ls 19s 6d ; Roslyn, £BO os 9d ; 'St. Clair, £6O 3s; St. Hilda and Musselburgh, £SO 6s 9d; South Dunedin, £32 13s; Kensington, £l2 10s; East Central, £7 14s 6d. Total, £829 4s 6d. Primary Schools.—Arthur Street, £2 6s sd; Caversham, £3 15s Id; Dunedin North Intermediate, £1 7s 5d ; Forhury, £2 2s 4d ; George Street, £1 Is 7d; Kensington, £1 5s lOd; Mornington, £2 3s 9d; Macandrew Intermediate. £2 19s 4d; Musselburgh, £1 16s 9d; Normal, £2 ss; North-east Valley, £1 12s 4d ; ■Pine Hill. 7s lid ; St. Clair, £1 14s lid ; Tainni, £1 0s 6d; Wakari, 19s 9d; '□polio, 11s 6d ; Upper Junction, 2s 9d ; ■West Harbour, 10s 9d. Total, £2B 3s ■lid. Secondary Schools and Colleges.— Areherfield School, £2 18s 9d ; Columba 'Girls’ College. £6 ; John M'Glashan College, £4 9s lOd ; King Edward Technical 'College, £l2 8s 7d ; King’s High School. £6 5s Id ; Otago Boys’ High School, £l2 •10s lid; Otago Givis’ High School, £4 f)s 6d ; St. Hilda’s Collegiate School, £4 ■l6s. Total, £53 ISs Bd. Other Sources. Anonymous, £2; Woolworths Ltd., £6 6s; Mount Allan (Mrs Jopp), £2: F. M. Mardling. 2s ■6d; C. P. D. employees, £7 14s; Anonymous, 2s; Hindoo district (Mrs Atkinson), £1 16s; Dunedin Taxis Ltd., £1 Is.

WELLINGTON TOTAL £2,034 [Peu United Fuess Association.] WELLINGTON, April 19. The Poppy Day returns last night totalled £2,034, giving promise,, when complete, of a good record. Last year's total was £2,0(55 17s Gd.