POPPY DAY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 5

POPPY DAY

ANNUAL APPEAL. SALES IN HAWERA. KEEN PUBLIC SUPPORT. The Women’s National Reserve oi Hawera undertook the organisation of the sale on Poppy Day of copies of the colourful flower which was familiar to those who saw service in Flanders. The object of the sale of this memento of the Great War is relief to ex-sol-diers or their relatives who may he in necessitous circumstances. Through the Dominion executive, supplies' of copies of the flower are received from the British Legion poppy factory. Petersham road, Richmond, Surrey, and distrilvtued to the branches throughout New Zealand. In the case of South Taranaki, the Women’s National Reserve took over the poppies from the club, and wifi return the monev realised at the sales.

The poppies this year were a .splendidly executed consignment. In some other years the supply has come from France, which has shared in the profits accruing from the sales. In Hawera the supply received! totalled 1500. Of these 980 were sent to the country, and the remainder re served for sale in town. The distribution points in the country districts in the neighbourhood were: The school, Tokaora; the school, Kaknramen ; the town clerk’s office, Kaponga!; the R.S.A., Man."viathe school. Manutahi ; the school, at Mata n»: the school, at Okaiawa; the R.S.A., Eltliam; and the schools at Kapuni and Fraser Road. The sales in Hawera opened' at 9 a.in., and brisk business was done from the commencement. The sellers’ chief stand was in front of Messrs McGruer, Bone and Co. Working under the president of the Women’s National Reserve and its _ secretary ("Mrs E. A. Pacey .and Miss' Bnllantine, respectively), a troop of Boy Scouts canvassed the streets in house-to-house sales. They met with an excellent response. By 10 a .in. a: big inroad bad; been made in supplies, and the ladies were confident that a verv satisfactory result would be obtained. The weather was ideal for such an occasion, and, as the morning wore on till noon, the buttonholes of men and women alike were increasingly burdened with the emblem of the cocknit of the European battle centre. In the afternoon, Mrs Bullock and; Miss Corrigan took charge, and carried to a: conclusion a- work in which the reserve, as usual, displayed nraefion 1 efficiency and obtained good results.

WELLINGTON’S EFFORT. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, April 22. Poppy Day resulted in nearly £IOOO being collected in the streets to-day.

COLLECTION AT DUNEDIN

DUNEDIN, April 22,

The apnual Poppy Day appeal, held in Dunedin to-day, resulted in over £475 being raised. This sum does not include returns from suburban and country centres. It is also anticipated that the totall will be considerably augmented by returns in the city which have yet to be handed in. The money will be used to provide employment and relief for distressed or*-workless ex-service, men. The effeet of unemployment and the general tightness of the money market, is reflected in the sum, which shows some reduction on last year’s total.