POPPY DAY SALES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1943, Page 2

POPPY DAY SALES

NEW RECORD IN MASTERTON INTERIM RRECEIPTS TOTAL OVER £345. LAST YEAR’S TOTAL EXCEEDED. Every year Poppy Day sales in the Wairarapa district reach a new record and when the final returns for yesterday's sales are to hand it is anticipated that another high peak will have been reached. In Masterton alone the amount received so far—and there are still more returns to come—is £345, which is £47 in excess of last year’s total foi* town sales. The receipts for the Wairarapa district last year were £487 17s 7d, which was £62 Is 7d greater than the record set the previous year. A pleasing feature of. yesterday’s sales was the very ready manner in which visiting United States service men purchased poppieg on their own initiative. In many instances the poppies were bought by one service man of a party, who handed them round to his companions. The Wairarapa U.S.A, wishes to thank all who assisted with the organisation of the sales, the result of which is considered most Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough all report having sold the whole of their quotas of poppies. WELLINGTON FIGURES. A RECORD SUM REALISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The record sum of approximately £5700 was realised from the Wellington Returned Services Association’s annual Poppy Day appeal yesterday. Late last night the sum of £5596 Is 4d had come in and there was still another £lOO odd to arrive. Last year’s 'total was approximately £3200. The figures are for Wellington and the Hutt Valley. The total is not only a Poppy Day record but probably also a record for any street collection in Wellington.