POPPY DAY
HELP FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS TO-MORROW’S APPEAL Many patriotic and philanthropic societies in Auckland will co-operate to-morrow in an effort to make this year’s Poppy Day a record success. There will be 28 collecting stands in the city and 50,000 poppies have been procured. The flowers are made by disabled soldiers in England and are distributed throughout the Empire for the Succeeding year seems to make the annual day of commemoration. Every day more popular, in Auckland at least, for last year £2.000 was contributed as compared with £I,SOO in the year before. The collecting stands will be opened at eight o’clock, and it is anticipated that the workers will have a busy day until late in the evening. Some of the bodies and associations which will help in to-morrow’s work are the Navy League, the Commercial Travellers’ Association, the Ex-Service IVomen’s Association, the Query Club, the Mutual Club, the St. John Ambulance. the Victoria League, Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Independent Order of Oddfellows, the Young Women’s and Young Men’s Christian Associations, the Plunket Society, the Benevolent Society, the Mayoresses of Auckland, Newmarket. Mount Eden. Onehunga. Taka puna , Birkenhead and Mount Albert, and bands of helpers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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197POPPY DAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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