HEALTH STAMP CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26729, 13 May 1952, Page 5

HEALTH STAMP CAMPAIGN

CHANGE MADE IN ARRANGEMENTS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 12. This year health stamps and souvenir covers would be obtainable from retail stationers and storekeepers who desired to stock them, and health stamps only would be handled by the Post Office, said the Minister of Social Welfare (Mrs G. H. Ross) to-night. The Minister said that the New Zealand Federation of Health Camps 'had arranged with a firm of manufacturing stationers to print ample supplies of specially approved souvenir covers, which would be made available to the public at the nominal sum of Id each. Previously a supply of covers was distributed free through the Post Office. “The health camp fund will gain a royalty on every envelope sold, and the demand can be much more readily satisfied through people being able to order in advance the quantities required, instead of waiting in queues at post offices for one or two covers,” said Mrs Ross. This year’s cover would be attractively designed and printed in two colours, and would be available for use during the whole of the health stamp campaign, from the opening day next October, to the end of next January, continued Mrs Ross. She said that the covers would be available for sale several weeks before the opening day of the campaign.