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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4394, 24 March 1922, Page 1

New Zealand people have said ihat they will never forget the men who gave their, lives in the great war for freedom (says Quick March, the returned soldiers’ national _ paper). Therefore memorials are being built in many towns and villages, and the names of the fallen are being inscribed on stone or metal as a perpetual inspiration of patriotism to new generations. New Zealand’s people have also said that they will never forget; the soldiers who survived the war. • Yet numbers of these defenders and their dependants are suffering much anxiety to-day, because the “financial stringency” has thrown the -breadwinners out of employment.. One means of easing this hardship has been projected, by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association with a dominion plan for the poppies on.the day before Anzac Day. The French Children’s League is supplying 396,000 small poppies, replicas of the Flanders poppy, to be sold before Anzac Day, and also 3562 large silk poppies for wreaths and crosses. The scheme placed before the R.SjA. executive provides that the poppies shall be distributed to the districts ip proportion to population. The district secretaries will allocate the poppies to the various towns. The’ large poppies will toe sold to the 300 largest schools in the Dominion for school wreaths to be placed on monuments. Twelve poppies will be required to make a wreath, and the charge will be 2s each, or -21 s for the wreathl The small poppies will be sold at Is each. The gross proceeds, if all the poppies are sold, will be over £20,000