HEALTH STAMPS.
SUCCESS OF THE FIRST WEEK. INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. WELLINGTON, November 11. Results of the first week’s Health Stamp Campaign, which is the main basis of support for the children’s health. camps of the Dominion, shows that the health stamp has become firmly established as a great annual community effort. The stamps were first sold on Monday, November 2, the first week ending on November 7 with the following encouraging approach to the objective of £IO,OOO: — £ s. d. Stamps ... 1569 1 2 Donations ... 2152 15 10 Total ... £3721 17 0 This achievement is largely due to the generous way in which those who assisted the previous successful campaign again showed their readiness to assist a good cause. The large receipts from the sales of stamps indicate that many thousands of New Zealanders have decided to completely replacq their ordinary stamp purchases during the currency of the campaign by the "penny for postage, penny, for health” stamp, the sales in the first week having been £BOO 14s 2d in excess of the corresponding week’s total last year, namely, £768 7s. Health stamp sales in the first week reached the impressive number of 376,574.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 28, 12 November 1936, Page 2
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