HEALTH STAMPS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 300, 30 September 1938, Page 7

HEALTH STAMPS.

SALE STARTS TO-MORROW, His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, will inaugurate this year’s Health Stamp campaign in an address from, the National Broadcasting stations, speaking from 2YA Wellington this evening. To-morrow morning" the Health Stamp—ld for Health, Id for Postage—will be on sale, and this medium for financing a valuable movement in the interests of the health of children is again commended to public generosity, for it supplies the main resources of the health camps throughout the Dominion. Health, camps started! in a modest way. It was realised that a special, need existed which could not be so effectively met as by this co-operation of voluntary workers who were interested in children and prepared to give them a happy few weeks in the open, in pleasantly situated camps, where rest, recreation and diet could be utilised to build up poor constitutions. When the Health Stamp became so well established as the easy medium of public subscription the movement grew rapidly; camps were set up in positions which gave opportunities to children from all parts of New Zealand, and the general contro was placed in the hands of a National Federation of Health Camps. Still greater impetus was given to the movement through the King George V. Memorial Fund, which will provide money for permanent improvements in the existing camps and enable new ones to he established. As these funds are expended lor “capital purposes only, the seasonal activities o all the Health Camp Committees still depend wholly on tin* money made available year by year from a generous public, on lho assurance that the “Penny for Health” represented in the twopence paid for the stamp is devoted entirely to the maintenance of children in tin* ramps and that contiibutions from a particular district go to the benefit of the children - from that district. The programme of the health camp organisations throughout the Dominion indicate that they will provide this season for nearly four thousand children, the number being limited only by the extent of Health Stamp resources which have never failed in the past and are a»ain being relied on for extended activtios made possible by the improved and enlarged camp facilities now being provided. Camps an* held in many places m various parts of the Dominion. In this county success has attended that held •it Ktavelev, and the residents of Ashhurl,on, with tangible evidence of the good results achieved, will not be lukewarm in their practical support oi a most, worthy object.