POPPY DAY APPEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 12

POPPY DAY APPEAL.

A GENEFIOUS RESPONSE. MANY WILLING WORKERS. A generous response on the part of the public, in spit.j of the hard times, resulted in a substantial total being taken as a result of the annual "Poppy Day" collection yesterday. The actual sum was not available last evening. Last year the amount was a little over £ISOO, and in each of the two preceding years tho total was about £2OOO.

A magnificent effort to maintain the high total of previous years in spite of the prevailing depression wag made by the Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association. A largo number of willing helpers presided at stalls throughout thd city and suburbs, while an army of workers, men as well as women, carried collection boxes to help augment the total. The thousands of scarlet poppies sold yesterday were made by returned i.oldiers, 16 of whom had thus been kept in employment since last September. Although the actual materials were imported, the petals were stamped out and the flcwers made locally. Poppies for the whole of the Auckland Province were supplied by the Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association this year.

Of the total collected, 20 per cent, will be added to (he funds of the Returned Soldiers' Association, the remainder being used to alloviale distress among cx-service-men.