Flower Day Effort Raises £146 14/3

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 259, 1 November 1940, Page 5

Flower Day Effort Raises £146 14/3

Patriotic women of the city ware early on the job yesterday morning in preparation for flower day to aid the £1,600,000. Appeal and as a result of their enthusiastic efforts the sum of £146 14s od was raised. Headquarters were at the Opera House supper room where 31 rs. fci. Orr was in charge on Wednesday and Thursday, and committee members were kept busy making up bunches of flowers and buttonholes, handing out flowers and badges and receiving contributions. The response was excellent. Stalls were arranged round the Square and supplies were delivered in wheelbarrows, clothing baskets and by other means. The combined patriotic committees were responsible, the Mayoress (Mrs. A. E. Mansford) and Mesdamps G. C. Petersen and Si G. Northev being in charge. Tho A.N.A. Club branch had a stall outside the club, the Lady Galway Guild outside the Post Oflice, tho parcels branch at the Bank of New Zealand corner (where tho management of the Picadilly tearooms supplied morning and afternoon tea to .the helpers), the wool and hussifs branch outside the P.D.C., and 3lrs. Cyril King conducted a stall outside the C. 31. Ross Co. ’s premises. Seedlings (of which over 30 boxes were donated by nurserymen), cut flowers, buttonholes and bodges were sold, and the P.D.C.. the C. M. Ross Co., and Messrs. Colliu-on and Cunninghame released girls from their staffs to help with the sale. Mrs. Nesbitt «nd 3rrß. F. Jackson were in charge of refreshments. Mrs. J. 1.. Davies sold flowers at Terrace End from a car decorated by Mr. C. A. Dixon and, iu tho afternoon, Mrs. R. A. Fuller was an arresting figure dressed as one of London’s favoured old flower women in bonnet, shawl and voluminous skirt with gay balloons floating in tho air, sold flowers from a gaily decorated barrow after a triumphel march round the Square.