John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 13 March 1925:<br> "POPPY DAY" FLOWERS<br> LOCAL MANUFACTURE URGED<br> A new avenue of employment for returned disabled soldiers, that of manufacturing the paper <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/poppies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poppies</span></a>, which are at present imported from France and sold on “Poppy Day,” was touched upon at a meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association last night. Mr. Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand R.S.A., said that “Poppy Day” was first inaugurated with the idea of making returned soldier organisations practically self-supporting. If the flowers could be manufactured in New Zealand, it would mean that from fourteen to twenty disabled men could be permanently employed. The contract with the French people for the supply of the poppies expired after the next "Poppy Day"… Until two years ago the British Legion obtained its poppies from France, but since then had made its own by the employment of disabled men.… Australia, until last year, got its flowers from France, but since then had made its own.<br> The proposal was carried unanimously, and will be forwarded as a remit to the Wellington Metropolitan Returned Soldiers’ Association’s Conference at Palmerston North.<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250313.2.143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19250313.2.143</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ReturnedSoldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReturnedSoldiers</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSA</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fundraising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fundraising</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>