POPPY DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 4

POPPY DAY

AIASTERTON SALES REACH NEW RECORD INTERIM RETURNS TOTAL £243. WELL ABOVE LAST YEAR’S Poppy Day sales in Masterton have brought in £243 16s 3d, with several small returns still to come in, - which are expected to bring the total to about £253. Last year the total was £220 16s.

The Wairarapa R.S.A. is particularly gratified with this excellent result and wishes to thank everyone who assisted in any way in making the appeal such a success. Under the direction cf the Mayoress, Mrs T. Jordan, a large band of ladies yesterday conducted street sales and a-house to house canvas. Those who took part were: — Mesdames Prentice, Drummond, Morgan Miller. O’Hara Smith, J. Caselberg, Fagan, N. Irwin, E. G. Norman, J. Bird, J. Lawson, O’Connor, L. Hopkins, M. Simpson. A. W. Reynolds, Sortain Smith. W. H. Robieson, Alexander, O. McKenzie, L. Gray, Towns, J. G. Dagg. E. J. Heffer, Plummer, Hodder, Kilgour, Mabson, Newman, L. Jones, G. Jones, E. Jones, Morris Jones, Dickel, Birch, G. M. Ross, J. E. Jenkins, Sheet, W. H. Judd, Gooding, D. Falloon, R. Cunningham, Hogg. Misses M. and I. McLaren, R. Harrison, E. Rutherford, M. James, B. Potter, P. Heffer, Yelverton, J. James, B. Barton, J. Beetham, R. Thompson, D. Thompson, R. Burling, A. Burling, M. Falloon, Mygand, Hammond, Prentice, A. McLaren, Hibbs, K. Cunningham, T. Nicol, Foster, Z. McPherson, R. Elliott, J. Douglas, Kummer (2), McKenzie and E. Donald.