POPPY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 24482, 17 April 1943, Page 4

POPPY DAY

RECORD COLLECTION IN DUNEDIN A generous response was made by the public of Dunedin and suburbs to the annual Poppy Day.appeal yesterday of the Dunedin Returned Services' Association, and when counting was completed last night it was found that the total was £2,000, with further returns to comb This is about £2BB more more than the amount collected Jast year, which itself represented a record. Features of the collection yesterday were the number of £5 notes placed in the boxes and the manner in which school children subscribed, many of them preferring, to buy poppies than the less exipensive emblems. The president of the R.S.A. (Mr S. G. Scoular) expresses his appreciation of the excellent work of the numerous women collectors and of the many organisations which assisted in the appeal. He also thanks the tellers of the National Bank and the Dunedin Savings Bank who assisted in counting the returns. To the general public he expresses the association's thanks for such a ready and generous response. Following are details of the collection yesterday in the city and suburbs: — City Stallholders.—Jacobs's Corner, £44 3s 7d; Grand Hotel Corner, £74 14s 2d; Stock Exchange, £7O Is sd; Tourist Department Corner, £57 10s 8d; Stewart Dawson's Corner, £l7 17s lOd; City Hotel Corner, £23 Is 4d; Falconer's Corner, £ll 6s 8d; H.B. Corner, £53 14s 4d; Strand Corner, £3B 18s lid; Sproseh's Corner, £24 Is 2d; Penrose's Corner, £26 lis 3d; Hanover street. £3O 6s lOd; Frederick street, £6l lis 2d; Duke street, £l6 10s 8d; Gardens, £26 9s; Cargill's Corner, £56 10s 4d; Y.M.C.A., £2O 2s 9d; Forbury Corner, Kew, and Caversham, £125 8s 3d; Stafford and Manse- streets, £43 2s lid: railway station, £4B 3s 9d. District Stallholders.,— Anderson's Bay, £65; Tainui, £6O 6s; Belleknowes, £44 2s 7d; Dalmore, £l7 }ls 6d; Dunedin Central, £64 12s 6d; Dunedin North, £97 10s 9d; Dunedin Northwest, £66 15s; Kaikorai South, £22 17s 6d; Kaikorai North, £27 6s Id; Wakari £l9 6s; Maori Hill. £66 18s 3d; Mornington, £6B 19s 7d; North-east Valley and Normanby, £62 12s; Opoho, £lB 6s; Roslyn. £7l Is sd; St. Clair. £65 2s 9d; St. Kilda and Musselburgh, £66 7s 3d; South Dunedin, £26 15s 9d; Kensington, £3l 19s 6d; East Central, £SO -13 s. n , , • Primary schools, £42 19s 2d; secondary schools, £6l 2s 2d; donations, £4l ss.