ROSE DAY APPEAL
LADY WILFORD AS COLLECTOR LONDON, June 10. In the Queen’s annual Rose Day appeal Lady Wilford collected £BS in front of New Zealand House. RECORD RETURNS EXPECTED. (British Official Wireless.) ' RUGBY, June 10. (Received June 11, at 5.5 p.m.) The annual Alexandra Rose Day appeal for hospitals was held to-day and it is hoped that by the sales of artificial roses and by street collections £60,000 will be raised. The record for Rose Day is £58,000. A bouquet of roses sebt by the Queen from Windsor was sold in separate blooms at Christie’s and realised £IOOO. The King’s carriage stopped by a rose seller when his Majesty was on his way to Rotten row for his morning ride, and the King purchased a flower.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 7
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127ROSE DAY APPEAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 7
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