NEW PLYMOUTH POPPY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1930, Page 14

NEW PLYMOUTH POPPY DAY

LIST OF THE COLLECTORS. The headquarters for the Poppy Day Fund in New Plymouth to-day will be at the Women’s Club. Collectors are asked to return all boxes and unsold poppies as early as possible, so that they may be disposed of by the town sellere. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided at the club under the supervision of Mrs. F. Hartnell, assisted by Mesdamcs T. G. Thomson and Butchart. Messrs Brodie and McHardie, assisted by Mrs. D. le C. Morgan and Miss Carr, will receive the boxes. The general organiser is Airs. C. H. Weston, and the collection will be organised as follows:—Vogeltown, Mrs. H. V. S. Griffiths; Westown, Miss Beulah Hartnell, Airs. Walter Weston; Ngamotu, Airs. Honeyfield; Central Block, Mesdames F. S. Johns and Rex Brewster; 'West End, Alisses E. and A. Brown, and Airs. Snell; Veale’s Estate, and streets at west end of Devon Line, Airs. Leslie Brown; main street sellers, Mrs. C. H. Weston; schools, Miss- Mildred Alleman. A guessing competition in connection with Poppy Day is being organised by Airs. R. Standish. The official collectors will be as follows :— Alain Street. Poet Office- to Hannah’s.—All day, Aliss Kirkby. Aloral’s to Bank of New Zealand. All day, Miss K. Wood. Hannah’s to Imperial Hotel. —9 to 12, Miss Dell; 12 to 3, .Miss A. Greig. Imperial Hotel to Melbourne—9 to 12, Miss Smart; 12 to 3, Miss Mary Thompson. White Hart Block.—9 to 12, Miss 0. Shaw; 12 to 3, Mrs. AV. AVebster; 3 to 6, Mrs. Brock. Moral’s to Station. —9 to 12, Alias Nesbit-Smith. ; Hookham’s to Sole’s. —9, to 12, Miss M. Moyes; 12 to 3,. Miss Al. Sladden. Sole’s to Paterson’s.—D to 12, Aliss I. Cameron; 12 to 3, Aliss Al. Fookes; 3 tt> 6, Miss B. Carthew. Bank of New Zealand- to Station.— 9 to 12, Miss R. Hawes. Central Area. Moleeworth Street.—Airs. Waters. Devon Street East.—AHsses Bellringer. .Woolcombo Terrace and Octavius Place.—Miss B. Bailey. Buller Street. —Mfrs. Shoemark. Leach Street.—Airs. Moore. Ridge Lane and John Street.—Mrs. Patrick. Hobson Street. —Airs. Rea. Avenue Road.—Aliss P. Bates. , Liardet and Fillis Streets. —Alisses Lye. Gilbert and Cameron Streets.—Airs. Scrivener. Gill Street (Coronation Hall to Newton King’s) —Mrs. Ainsworth. Gill Street and Ante-re Street (from Coronation Hall). —Aliss Wood. ■ Watson and Pukenui Streets. Aliss Nicholson. Lemon Street.—Airs. Macdonald. Calmady Terrace and Ebrington Place. —-Airs. Bennoch. Pendarves Street to Workers’ Social Hall.—Miss Crawshaw.

Carrington Road and AHctoria Road. Airs. H. R. Billing. Dawson Street.—Airs. Dinniss. Brougham Street.—Aliss Hamilton. Fulford Street.—Aliss R. Whitton. ■ Powderham Street. —Alisses McHardy and Dunlop. Robe and Dowhe Streets. —Airs. C. B. Webster.

Vivian Street (bridge to Dawson Street). —Aliss Simpeon. Vivian Street (Dawson Street to Cutfield Road).—Mies K. Morey. Bulteel Street. —-Airs. H; C. Baker. Courtenay Street (bridge to Hobson Street). —Miss G. Alorey.

Courtenay Street (Hobson Street to Te Henui). —Mrs. V. Kerr. Devon Street West. —Mesdames Anstis and Hamilton. Eliot Street. —Miss G. Avery (Avenue Road). ■ Gover Street. —Mrs. Bert Boon. Fitzroy. ■Smart Road. —Mrs. Sorenson. Sackville, Beach and Barriball Streets. —Miss Drew. Newton, Richmond and Barriball Streets. —Miss Pullen. Record and Ropiha Streets; —Miss Sladden. Fitzroy Road, Puni and Princess Streets. —Mrs. Webster. Darnell, Normanby and Clemow Streets. —Mrs. Chivers. Fitzroy. —Misses Helen Mackay and Johnson. Over Waiwakaiho River to Smart Road, Glen Avon. —Miss Chivers. Waiwakaiho Bridge" to Paynter’s Lane. —Miss Ramson.

Paynter’s Lane to Henui Street, Baring Terrace.—Airs.’Russell. Paynter’s Lane.—Mrs. N. ’F. Way. Rhnu, Chilman and Wilson 'Streets.— Mrs. Way. Waiwaka Terrace. —Mrs. Quilliam.

Nob’s Line, Ronald, Hamblyn and McLean Streets. —Miss Grover. Lower Mangorei. —Mrs. Akers. Kowhai, Karamu and Ngaio Streets. —Mrs. Trevella. West End. Hine Street and Esplanade. —Misses A. and E. Brown. . Belt Road, Glen Almond and Davis Lane. —Mrs. Snell and Miss. 0. Faull. Cutfield Road, Glen Road and Bonithon Avenue. —Misses J. Beal and G. Duffin. Young and Weymouth Streets, Bulkeley Terrace. —Miss K. Hurley and Mrs. L. Collins. Gaine, Aubrey, Dawson and King Streets.—Mrs. P. Allan and Miss M. McKay. St. Aubyn Street (from Kingswell Street to Terminus Hotel). —Mesdames Mason and Adamson. Kingswell Street, Birdwood Avenue, French Street and Kitchener TerraceMiss Putt. Morley Street. —Mrs. Snell. Ngamotu, Peace Avenue and Spotswood. —Miss Looney and Mrs. McKay. Veale’s Estate. —Mrs. Brown. _ Wes town. Upper Westown.—Mrs. E. L. Mason. Tukapo and David Streets—Mrs. A. Muir and Miss V. McCarty. Wallace Place and Barrett Street.— Miss M. Grace. Dartmoor. —Misses M. Dumbell and B. Hartnell. Frankleigh Park.—Mrs. Newton Allen. Poppy Day Stall. T >... P ....... r»., v produce stall is again

under the capable management of Mesdames D. Blackley and Everiss, assisted by Mesdames Ellerm, Chivers and Brash. Mr. D. Barry has kindly lent a shop below the Women’s Club for the mart. All the best cooks in the town are sending cakes, jams, etc. The stall will be well worth patronising and the fund is well worth assisting. Please come and buy —and send. POPPY DAY APPEAL. WHAT HAVE AVE DONE SINCE AVAR? “What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy ?” One is safe in stating that no catch phrase engendered by the late war has caused more mirth than that quoted above, especially among the Digger fraternity, for they, of all people, know what strange and varied tasks fell. to. the lot of the average soldier during the oft-changing phases of the war. For instance, there is the worldfamous case of the /nan called before a tribunal during the combing-out process who unblushingly announced that his was vital work —making wooden seeds for artificial raspberry jam! Needless to say he was fitted with a khaki rig-out without x dclay. Thinking things over quietly the point arises: “W’hat have we done since the Great War, Daddy?”-—What have we done to help our soldiers to. re-find their niche in the great scheme of things, which they vacated so uncomplainingly at the Empire’s call for “man-power and yet more man-power?” It is best for each to answer the question personally. It is not that we don’t care, not that wo forget what the army did for us, not that wo grudge assistance to disabled men, but mostly because we are ■ just busy and a trifle thoughtless. On Poppy Day we will all have a wonderful chance to assist our disabled returned men by buying the crimson “poppies of remembrance,” thereby assisting- those men who modestly “did something rather grand in the Great War, Daddy.” “ALL CLEAR!” Denny came from Berkshire—not that he ever tried to pass it off as “the Oxford accent” —and it happened up at Ypres just before the glorious disaster of Passchendaele. The concentration camps were growing fuller and fuller, ready for the great push, and day and night were they harried by giant Gothas with their sinister cargo of “eggs” (bombs). At night no light—not even a cigarette—might be shown with safety and each unit had its bomb-guard on duty. Their work was to listen for planes overhead and to see that the camp displayed no twinkle of light. Denny, standing at the door of his tent, has just come off duty and was surveying the heavens once more before., turning in. Juist inside the tent contented snores announced the whereabouts of Denny's greatest pal, one Dan. Now Dan possessed many corns, and one particularly fine bunion, which was at once his cross and his pride. In his rich Berkshire tones Denny made his final announcement, “All clear!” Simultaneously an ear-splitting - explosion shook the camp and for several seconds the heavens rained clods of debris. The concussion flung Denny through the tent door where he collided heavily with Dan’s feet. Then Dan began and for a while the bomb explosion was outclassed and “whipped to a frazzle;” Miraculously no one was hurt, the bomb falling on the only unoccupied corner of ground for miles around. This winter when the demands upon the Poppy Day funds are likely to be severe, when the lurking ogre of old wounds and ill-liealth comes stalking among our fighting men, let us be able to look at the fund’s bank account and say with a note of quiet confidence, All Clear!” ' M Poppy Day organisers throughout the New Plymouth hospital district are — Air. Olsen, Inglewood; Airs. T. S. Hickey, Opunake; Mrs. E. George, Waitara; Alisses Bell and Bond, Oakura; Airs. Grinlinton (Pungarehu); Airs. . Fox (Okato); Alessrs Ayling and Gibson, Kaimiro; Mrs. Morton, Egmont Village; Aliss Taylor (Bell Block); Airs. StuartCassie (Tumahu); Airs. Harper-Lepper (Lepperton); Aliss Giddy (Tarurutangi) Airs. R. Pigott (Urenui); Airs. Clark (Rahotu); Airs. Paterson (Tarata); Alessrs Loveridge (Tariki); Mrs. Sampson (Hillsborough); Airs. Fuller < T -°?« a ' norutu); Airs. Cooke (Puniho); rs ’ Downs (Bell Block); Miss . Chapman (Warea); Airs. H. Foreman (Tikorangi); Mrs. Honeyfield (Onaero). The schools this year , are all helping the fund, also many of the dairy factories and stores.