GERMAN POPPIES.
IN WREATHS AT CENOTAPH
DILL FOR PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY.
PATTED I'KESS ASSOCIATION—BV ELECT K 1 < TELEGRAPH—COP V'BIODT.) LONDON. May 15.
Tn the House of Commons, Lieut.Commander Sir A. C. Raw-san, in introducing a Bill prohibiting the importation of imitation British legion poppies, said that Earl Haig had introduced 1 ’oppy .Day to lielp the except ion ally disable*! ex-seiwice men. Poppies were made by 240 disabled men in Richmond factory and by 50 in Kdinhurgh. Three hundred other ex-service men were waiting similar work. There were people making poppies in Britain in competition with disabled men. They were beyond legislation and beyond hone, and could only he left to a discerning public. The Bill could prevent Germans from sending poppies here, but he understood that one-third of the wreaths at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day were made- of German poppies.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 7
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