THE HEALTH STAMP CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 7

THE HEALTH STAMP CAMPAIGN

AN ENCOURAGING FIRST WEEK

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

WELLINGTON, November 11

The results of the first week of the health stamp campaign, which is the main basis of support for the children's health camps of the Dominion, show 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 with the following encouraging approach to the objective of £IO,OOO. £ s. d. Stamps .. .. 1569 1 2 Donations .. 2152 15 10 ( First week’s 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 sales of stamps indicate that many, thousands of New Zealanders have decided, during the currency of the campaign, completely to replace their ordinary stamp purchases by the “penny for postage, penny for health” the sales in the first week having been £BOI 14s 2d in excess of the corresponding week’s total last year, namely £768 7s. The amounts made available for health camps from the respective postal districts during the first week were as follows:—Wellington £790; Christchurch £528; Auckland £478; Wanganui £424; Dunedin • £252; Nelson £210; Palmerston North £187; Oamaru £109; Napier £105; Thames £B9; Hamilton £6B; Invercargill £67; Timaru £62; Blenheim £55; New Plymouth £47; Gisborne £23: Greymouth £l4; Westport £11; General Post Office £196. Health stamp sales in the first week reached the impressive number of 376,574.