HEALTH CAMPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 275, 20 November 1935, Page 8

HEALTH CAMPS.

FOND 1 NEARING £6000. SUMMER PLANS WELL IN HAND. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The latest figures of the health stamp campaign announced by the DirectorGeneral of the Post Office, Mr. G. McNamara, show that the t.otal has reached £5719 8/7. Health Camp plans for the summer are well forward in all parts of the Dominion, and the various organisations concerned have been encouraged to go ahead with confidence owing to the excellent public response to the appeal. . Proceeds from donations and health stamp sales up till the end of October are being distributed from the G.P.O. to organised campaign committees, who&e names have been forwarded to the. Department of Health and recognised by that authority; There are 44 organised bodies throughout the country, and they are entitled to receive the campaign proceeds raised in their own locality. In many centres where there is no health camp in the immediate neighbourhood the local committees are utilising the funds to send children to suitable established camps. For instance, the Gisborne committee is arranging to send children to the Otaki health camp, which has already been opened, and as a result of the improved and assured finances is likely to operate the whole year round. The latest district totals arc ae follows: Wellington, £1403 0/5; Auckland, £572 13/0; Napier, £497 13/3; Paimerston North £473 10/3; Dunedin, £401 8/7; New Plymouth, £378 12/2; Christchur.-h, £350 11/0; Invercargill, £277 0/8; Hamilton, £209 8/7; Wanganui, £200 15/10; Gisborne, £199 15/9; Timaru, £100 2/8; Blenheim, £120- J/7; Thames, £122 11/8; Oamaru, £117 11/6; Greynionth, £103 6/11; Nelson, £49 9/9; Westport, £9 12/. The above figures make a total of £5719 8/7, of which £2838 0/8 was secured li-om tiie sale or scamps, £259 0/4 from the sale of envelopes, and £2G22 7/7 from donations.