For Remembrance

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 4

For Remembrance

THE Returned Services’ Association 1 is to-day making its annual Poppy Day appeal to the people of Timaru. It is an appeal which carries its own irresistible commendation. Through the years the Returned Services’ Association has found it advisable to have a fund to give special kinds of assistance to servicemen in temporary need. It is no reflection on the Government that such a fund is required, for there are often occasions when men, through no fault of their own, want practically expressed sympathy and this need is one which the Returned Services’ Association is best qualified to meet. Men who have served in war understand their old comrades in arms and they are approached confidently in times of stress. The funds of the R.S.A. are competently administered and the public knows by now that the money subscribed on Poppy Day is spent to best advantage. I o-day the R.S.A. needs more money to meet the new needs of a much larger number of war veterans and there can be no more satisfactory way of showing gratitude to the men who have defended the freedom of the country in two wars than to buy a poppy and pay as generously as possible for it. Men who have faced the perils and horrors of modern warfare are more than entitled to this modest tribute.