"CHRISTMAS SEALS."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 5

"CHRISTMAS SEALS."

ANTI-T.B. CAMPAIGN. HOW TO HELP CHILDREN. STAMPS 02s SALE TO-MORROW. The Christmas Seal -will be on sale at post offices throughout the Dominion to-morrow. Each stamp has a postage value of Id and a charity value of Id. The purchase of the combined stamp is entirely voluntary. The secret of tho success of the scheme lies in the fact that no one, however poor, need forego the satisfaction of subscribing his mite to a good cause. It is proposed that the proceeds of the appeal in the first instance will be devoted to the establishment in selected | sites in the Dominion of health camps for under-nourished and debilitated children, or of children who have been contacts with cases of tuberculosis in their own homes. These health camps will be under medical supervision, ana adequate nursing assistance will be provided. It is understood from the Health Department that many children who are contacts of tuberculosis in their own homes and who ultimately contract and die of the disease would be spared if, at the time of contact and before the disease developed, they were removed for a time to a health camp in the country. It is believed that most people will welcome the opportunity of assisting in | some small way towards brightening the lives and improving the health of the children who it is proposed should benefit. It is hoped that business firms in particular will use the stamps on at least a portion of their correspondence. The outgoing in the case of each individual giver will be a comparatively small sum; but, if each person contributes, the aggregate result for the Dominion as a whole will be a substantial sum of money.