THE POPPY FUNDS.
TO BE SUBSIDISED BY BOROUGH
COUNCIL
TO PROVIDE WORK FOR SOLDIERS
The Mayor informed the Borough Council on Tuesday evening the Poppy Day funds collected in Shannon in connec-fcio with the Anzac celebiutions amounted to £l4. There was a possibility of this being increased to £2O when a redistribution of the whole of the. funds collected had been made. The money would be“6xpended in providing work for returned soldiers. He asked if the Council would not subsidise £1 for £1 the money to he spent in Shannon.
Cr. Spencer: Yes, I think that is the best thing to do. Cr. Hook considered that would be a good action, on the part of the borough.
On Cr. Spencer’s motion, seconded by Cr. Butt, it was decided that the amount received from the PoDpy Fund be subsidised £1 for £l, and that the money be expended in the borough.
Cr. Fargher: What wages will you pay?
The Mayor suggeste/l doing the work by contract-
or. Murray: That is not very definite.
The Mayor said they could leave that, over until the! money was received. When it arrived definite arrangements for its expenditure can he made.
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Shannon News, 19 May 1922, Page 3
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196THE POPPY FUNDS. Shannon News, 19 May 1922, Page 3
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