DAFFODIL DAY.
VICTORIA LEAGUE EFFORT. Fine wHtfaer and a response from the public comparable to that of recent years will make a success of Daffodil Day m Auckland today. Since 1922 it baa been the aim of the Victoria League to assist the young people's movements in the city—one of the best means of helping the progress of the Empire. .Hall of to-day's proceeds will be devoted to the Plankei Society, the six free kindergartens, the Boy Scouts' and Girl Guides' Associations, "and the girls' branch of the Young Citizens' Leacua. The other half will be used for the "Empire work" of the league. This includes the sending of books and magazines to the hackhlocks, tending soldiers' graves on Empire Day, Anzac Day acd Armistice Day and aiso caring for immigrants. The privilege or holding Daffodil Day was granted in 1915. when the league raised" a large sum for leather waistcoats for the troops. In 1919 nearly £2OO was raised and used for completing a war memorial, and since then many of the above-mentioned institutions have benefited from the annual collection. Stalls will bo conducted in variousparts of the city and suburbs, a willing band of helpers having volunteered their services.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 12
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