POPPY DAY.
TO HELP UNEMPLOYED DIGGERS. Ladies’ organisations, soldier’s arive» and soldiers’ widows are combining with the Returned Soldiers’ Association in every centre, willingly and actively, fc? the success of Poppy Day, which will be celebrated in New Plymouth to-day. To wear a poppy on Poppy Day is to honor our heroic dead, and to buy a poppy is to help 1000 unemployed “Diggers” to tide over the winter in New Zealand in their search for work. The proceeds of the sale of flowers v . will not be handed out in doles, but will be used with discrimination to provide food and clothing for ex-soldiera and their dependents jn the respective* districts in which it is raised.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19220421.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1922, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
117POPPY DAY. Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1922, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in