POPPY DAY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18364, 23 April 1925, Page 14

POPPY DAY.

A GENEROUS RESPONSE. Each year, as Poppy Day arrives, large numbers of ladies come forward to give valuable assistance in a very worthy cause. With the object or helping the retiirned soldiers these ladies, organise street sales of . the poppy, which is the emblem chosen by England for remembrance of /those who fell in the Great War. This year's street sale was held yesterday, and groups of ladies worked untiringly all day in the pleasurable task of assisting distressed and unemployed soldiers. The widows and orphans in the devastated areas of France manufacture tlie poppies and. receive part of the profits of the sales.

The headquarters-yesterday were the' White Star Motor Service rooms, where the flowers were sorted out and the day'£ takings received. ..The organiser-in-chief was Mre H. T.--Thacker- who was --stationed at\ibS~ Post Office corner with. the Harbour Light Girls as assistants. Other stallholders were as follows.:—Headquarters, Mrs H. Batchelor; Mrs H. Thompson, Mrs J: Gore-Newell, Mrs J. 11. Evans and Miss I>. Gflrrick: Cook and Boss's corner, the Cambrian Society ; Cathedral square and Beresi'ord corner, the Navy League; Barlow's corner, W.C.T.U. members; Ballantyne's cornerj the Victoria League.; Bank of Australasia, Mrs .';*'. Britten. Mrs Garbatt and helpers; Tattersall'6, Overseas War Workers' Association; Bank of New Zealand corner, the Navy League; Barnett's corner, Sister McMurtrio, Mrs J. G. Wilson, Mrs Malpas, Mrs Hogben, students of Christchurch Kindergartens, and many others. . Sales were brisk yesterday and very few people were seen in the city without the rod emblem. Up to 4 p.m. £450 had heen collected, and the total for the day amounted to £643 14s, as against £635 ls»t year. Poppies were sent out to the suburbs from which the amounts collected haive yet to come in.

The executive of the U.S.A. tenders its thanks to all ladies who helped, and also to the' general public for its irery generous support.