HEALTH STAMP SALES

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28099, 15 October 1956, Page 14

HEALTH STAMP SALES

WELLINGTON LEADS CHRISTCHURCH

With £14,269 raised, Christchurch, is second only to Wellington in sales of health stamps after the first two weeks of the 1956-57 campaign. This is £1237 less than the record sum of £15.506 raised in Christchurch in the corresponding period last year. Wellington has reduced considerably the deficit disclosed in Sales for the first week of the campaign, and has now sold the greatest number of stamps. Sales throughout the Dominion for the second week of the campaign were £7451, compared with £8936 for the same period in 1955. Total sales to date are £106,968, which is £3790 less than sales for the first two weeks of last year’s campaign. Increases over last year’s figures are shown in the Blenheim, Gisborne, Hamilton, Napier, Palmerston North, and Westport districts. Sales in other South Island centres for the two weeks of the 1956-57 campaign, with figures for the corresponding period last year are: Blenheim, £1024 (£1003); Dunedin, £8950 (£9603); Greymouth, £1703 (£1827); Invercargill. £4828 (£5246); Nelson. £1944 (£2035); Oamaru, £l3OB (£1464); Timaru. £3266 (£3413); Westport, £584 (£573).