POPPY DAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 4

POPPY DAY.

THE MESSAGE OF THE FALLEN. In Flanders fioMs tho poppies grow UoiTveon tho oros:?o* row by mw. Tint imirk 0i« placo; and in tho ?ky Tho larkf, ffill bravoly tdngin*?, fly, Soanv hoard amid tho guns below. ■\Vo nrc the dead. Short days ago Wo lived, folt, dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved; and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from Jailing hands we throw The torch: be yours to hold it high, T»_ ye break faith with ns who die \\ e shall not sleep though, poppies grow, .1 n Flanders Jield-s. Tho poppies offered for sale in I lie streets of Dunedin In-dry are replicas of tho Flanders red peony which has b?on unisally adopted as the symbol of sacrifice by all the Allied nations participating in the Great War. The sale, to-day particularly commends itself to tho Dunedin public as tho proceeds will bo used to alleviate tho unemployment among ex-serrimmen in Dunedin by employing them on various works about the city. The work done in tho past—and also the work mapped out for this year—is not confined to any particular locality, but has lionefited every suburb. It is hoped that all classes of the community will respond liberally to tho appeal made.