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HEALTH CAMPAIGN

COMMENDED BY THE GOVERNOR.

OBJECTIVE OF £IO,OOO. ' The objects of the Health Stamp Campaign were commended by the Gov-ernor-General (Viscount Galway), in an address broadcast from the four national radio stations last night. In his speech, which marked the official inauguration of the 1935 campaign, his Excellency appealed for sufficient public support to the campaign to allow the objective of £IO,OOO to be reached. On the success of the appeal, he said, would depend the extension of the valuable work being done for the benefit of children in the Dbminion. This year, said his Excellency, a special effort was being made to promote the sale of the Health Stamp,

which cost 2d, Id being for postage. ' The proceeds from the other penny would be handed over, without deduction, to the organisations concerned in the administration of health camps for children.

“An appeal on behalf ol children’s welfare always strikes a sympathetic chord in our hearts,” he continued. “Children are a delight, and we parents all feel that everything we can do to promote the health and liappi ness of our children is effort well spent. But our interest goes further. It extends to all children, and I feel that you share with me the opinion that every child should enjoy a happy childhood, the foundation of which is sound health.

Handicapped Children. “My own short but very happy acquaintance with this Dominion has demonstrated to me that, in general, there is a very satisfactory standard of health, that most children are brought up amidst good surroundings, and that they have every opportunity to profit by the splendid climate of this beautiful country. But, unfortunately, there arc many children in our midst who are handicapped by then environment and who, unless friendly help is extended to them, cannot en joy all the things which we regard as essential to happy childhood. “It is on their behalf I make this appeal to you to-night to support the Health Stamp Campaign, because upon its success will depend on extension of valuable work for the benefit of the children. The health camps have already given . thousands much happiness and a better start in life. This .work has been sufficiently developed to demonstrate that only the fringe of the problem can be approached with the resources so far at the command of the various organisations concerned, which range geographically from Auckland to Southland. Lord Galway went on to say that much valuable work in conserving the health of children was being done by

State departments, but the activities of the organisations which would benefit from the Health Stamp Campaign would provide in addition that valua ble personal touch, that personal attention which meant so much to impressionable children. It had been decided that money raised in any particular district should be applied for the benefit of the children in that dis trict.'

Service on Gommi'ttees. There was opportunity, he said, for personal service on one of the thousand committees now being established throughout the Dominion. Organisation, however well directed, could not go far unless backed by the power of and in making this special appeal to those who could spare time for personal service, he ventured to predict that, as a result of their work, they would realise so strongly the na tional value of the Health Camp Movement, and gain such a knowledge of the generous hearts of the people, that they would soon come to regard service on a committee as a valued privilege. “The Minister for Health (Sir Alexander Young), who officially endorses the campaign, has made a suggestion which will he followed—that the money collected shall be expended in the maintenance at health camps of children selected on the advice of officers of the School Medical Service or on the recommendation of medical practitioners. In many cases, particularly, he states, from hospital districts, the funds can be more beneficially used for the immediate help of needy children by sending them to an existing health camp (where proper routine is established) than by expenditure on building and equipment.

“One can scarcely conceive a better method than the Health Stamp of providing an opportunity to subscribe in accordance with our financial resources his Excellency said in conclusion. “The individual i espouse may vary from one stamp to many hundreds, and I feel sure that the community will realise that there is a very real need for extension of the Health Camp work, and that the results—in increased good health, in greater happiness to many thousands of children, our future citizens—w,ll commend the campaign so Strongly to your generosity that the objective of £IO,OOO will be quickly reached.”

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 298, 30 September 1935, Page 8

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HEALTH CAMPAIGN Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 298, 30 September 1935, Page 8

HEALTH CAMPAIGN Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 298, 30 September 1935, Page 8