POPPY QUOTA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 18

POPPY QUOTA

SUM OF £1,914 TAKEN COLLECTIONS AT THE STALLS The total amount received by the Auckland eßturned Soldiers’ Association from the sale of poppies and from donations and wreaths this year was £1,914 Is 2d. The figures are slightly below those for last year. It is estimated by the secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. Mr. E. H. Sharp, that the net total will be a little over £1,200. as a certain amount of overhead expense has to be deducted from the proceeds of the sale. The poppies themselves cost several hundred pounds. Orf the net total. 20 per cent, will go to the Veterans’ Home, 15 per cent, will be used for administration purposes, and the remaining 65 per cent, will be used in assisting returned soldiers who are in necessitous circumstances. The list of returns from the various stalls is as follows: Navy League, £53 as lid: Commercial Travellers' Association, £192 8s sid; Exservicewomen’s Association, £sl IBs lOd: Mayoress and Query Club, £92 9s Sid; .Mutual Club, £69 5s S£d; Mrs. Tai.by, *.SB Is lid: St. John Ambulance. £65 18f o£d; Women's Christian Temperance I'nion, £lO3 11s 3d; Victoria League. £BB Td: St. Paul’s Church, £l6 6s 2d; V.M.C.A., £49 8s 3£d; Plunket Society. S 4» 18s lOd: Y.W.C.A.. £44 9s lid: Salvation Army. £62 5s lid; Mayoress of Newmarket, £4l 19s 4d: Benevolent Society, Three Lamps, £23 5s 3Jd; Play and Recreation Association, £22 19s 7£d; .Uavoress of Mount Eden, £6o 2s 9d; .Mayoress of Onehunga. £64 12s 8d; Greenwood’s Corner, £22 7s Id; Mayoress of Takapuna. £47 14s lOd; Mayoress of Uevonport, £77 10s; Northcote Progressive League. £32 13s 7d; Mayoress of Birkenhead. £43 10s 7d; Tamaki, £l3 0s 2ad; New Lynn and Avondale, £2l 3s sci. Henderson, £l3 17s Old; Mayoress of Mount Albert, £l4 7s 6£d; Bays water £23 3s U£d: Remuera, £22 6s Id, kin„ s School, Remuera. £o 14s; R.S.A. Office,