HEALTH STAMP SALES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 9

HEALTH STAMP SALES

£6086 RAISED ON FIRST DAY Christchurch organisers of the health stamp campaign were disappointed with the response on the opening day on Wednesday, but they blamed the weather. Although the day’s total of £6086 was more than the figure for last year—£ss27—it was considerably less than the total raised in Dunedin. The figures for Auckland were not available yesterday, but it was believed that Christchurch was second to Dunedin. With sales totalling £204, the Ferry Road Post Office was at the head of suburban offices. Upper Riccarton sold £192 worth of stamps. Linwood £lB9 worth, New Brighton £157 worth, and St. Albans. £llB worth. p Sales at the Chief Post Office yesterday were good, but no figure could be given last evening. DOMINION FIGURES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Health stamp sales throughout New Zealand yesterday amounted to more than one-third of the national objective for the whole of the campaign, and totals from the principal centres amounted to £39,136, against £29,531 last year, said the Postmaster-General (Mr F. Hackett) to-day. “The result was most gratifying,” said the. Minister. “Particularly I would like to mention Dunedin’s achievement where, in the city alone, stamps to the value of £7508 were sold. The results speak for the enthusiasm of qll those who are assisting the health stamp campaign.”