Origin of Health Stamps
“Though; it is not a New Zealand idea it has a distinctly Anzac flavour,” said Dr. D. P. Kennedy, chairman of the Christchurch Central Council of the King George V Memorial Children’s Health Camps Federation, speaking of the history of health stamps at a function to mark the opening of the health stamp campaign at Glenelg health camp yesterday afternoon. “They were first used in Australia by New South Wales in 1897 to raise money for tuberculosis sanatoria. Denmark seems to have developed the Idea and it was through a Danish 1 settler that the idea came to New Zealand. In 1929 our first health stamps ( were issued.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27472, 5 October 1954, Page 14
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