HEALTH STAMPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 10

HEALTH STAMPS.

ISSUE ON SATURDAY.

FUNDS FOR CAMP SEASON.

PLANS FOB. CAMPAIGN.

Health stamps will be placed on sale at all post offices in Xew Zealand on Saturday morning, and the authorities confidently expect that the responses made in past years to appeals to buy these 6tamps will be renewed. Last year, when a large sur.i had been collected only a few months previously for the establishment of permanent health camps, vigorous measure* to promote the sale of health stamps were not taken, but this year the selling campaign will be more energetic. In Auckland a permanent health camp will not be available for use during the coming camp season, and the existing summer camps at Motuihi and Campbell's Bay will, therefore, be required to work to capacity to care for the children seeking admission.

"We wish to emphasise that at the moment, in the Auckland district, there is definitely no connection between the summer health camps and the permanent health camp to be established," said Mr. H. M. Pattrick, chairman of

the Auckland Central Council of the Permanent Health Camp Organisation, this morning. "The sale of the stamps is definitely for the purpose of providing funds to maintain the children in the summer camps, and all moneys raised in Auckland will be expended for the benefit of Auckland children."

The local committee was working energetically, he added, and in addition to assisting in the sale of stamps in conjunction with the postal authorities, had decided to issue a firet-day cover. The covers were Id each, and of pleasing design.

At 9 o'clock on Saturday mornfne representatives of local bodies and the relig l ous bodies in Auckland will make purchases of health stamps at the Auckland Chief Post Office, and it is expected that the example set. by these eaders of the communitv will be followed by citizens generally.