Returned Soldiers’ Association

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1922, Page 4

Returned Soldiers’ Association

MEETING OF HOKITIKA BRANCJI. A meeting of the Committee < 1 the local branch of the R.S.A. lie .I on Monday evening at 7.30 p.m. I"resent —Messrs D. J. Evans (President) in the chair, T. Kerr (Secretary), Morgan, Callan, O’Driscoll, Stuart and Head. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. It was reported that no offer of a building suitable for Club Rooms was received. A sub-committee was appointed to make further inquiries re same. Correspondence from District Hoad quarters R.S.A. Christchurch re Poppy Day was read. The N.Z.R.S.A. is in possession of 396,000 small artificial Poppies made in devastated Northern France and of 4,000 large ones. It is the intention of the Association to sell the small Poppies on Monday 24th. April, 1922, so that they may be worn as a memorial flower on Anzne Day the 25th. the da v of remembrance of New Zealand’s dead.

The large Poppies will he sent direct from Heaclqiuarters to the largest Schools to bo made into memorial wreaths so that the local Poppy Day Committee will have none of these to sell.

The Poppies will be sold at the rate of Is each. One quarter of the net proceeds will be remitted to Paris to be used in helping the widows and children of Northern France and the remainder will be retained by the N.Z.R. S.A.

It wns resolved to write to the Mayoress asking her assistance in forming a Committee of ladies willing to take charge of the local sale of Poppies on April 24th.

It was decided to run a series > weekly dances under the auspices of the R.S.A. during the ooming Winter. A hearty rote of thanks to tho chair terminated the meeting.