HEALTH STAMPS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 10

HEALTH STAMPS

Issue on Sale To-day DESIGN FOR 1932 Produced in Dominion Health stamps for 1932 are to be placed on sale at the principal post offices to-day, and at all other post offices as soon afterwards as possible. They will remain on issue until the end of February next, as in previous years. The issue this year will be of a single denomination, costing 2d, a penny of which is for postage, and the other goes for the fund for children’s health camps. The stamp has been entirely produced in New Zealand, and is being issued in sheets of 60. The central design shows Hygeia, goddess of health, reclining against an altar, and holding high a goblet in her left hand, against a background of the sun’s rays. The stamp is of elongated format, similar to that of last year’s stamps, and is printed in carmine.

It has been well produced, and is considered by philatelists to be the best health stamp New Zealand has yet had, and will probably prove attractive to the general public and popular with stamp collectors. The design is that of Mr. R. E. Tripe and Mr. W. J. Cooch. The engraver was Mr. H. T. Peat, of Wellington, and the issue was produced at the Government Printing Office.