POPPY DAY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 April 1935, Page 4

POPPY DAY

ATT) FOR UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS. Wednesday, 17tlx April, is Poppy Day, when the annual appeal will be made to the public by the R.S.A. for a general response for funds to assist ex-service men during the coming winter. The poppies are made in Christchurch by N.Z. disabled soldiers, and the sales help them as well as our own local men. Every citizen of Masterton should make a point of buying a poppy on Wednesday, in remembrance of some fallen soldier, and 1 thus show liis or her practical sympathy by assisting those out of work. During the winter months work is harder to get and the necessities of life harder to obtain, and the funds raised will be spent locally in relief. The public is asked to support a good cause by buying a poppy at a minimum of 1/-. The sales are in the capable hands of Mrs J. Caselberg and her committee of voluntary workers, and only these ladies are authorised to sell poppies. In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. —John Mcßae.