HEALTH STAMP SALES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 41, 12 November 1936, Page 10

HEALTH STAMP SALES

Twice as Rapid as Last Year £3721 IN FIRST WEEK Results of the first week’s Health Stamp Campaign, which is the main basis of support for the children’s health camps of the Dominion, show that the Health Stamp has become firmly established as a great annual community effort. The stamps were first sold on Monday, November 2, the first week ending on November 7 with the following encouraging approach to the objective of £lO,OO0 — Stamps £1,569 1 .2 Donations 2.152 15 10 First week’s total . .£3,721 17 0

This achievement is largely due to the generous way in which those who assisted the previous successful campaign again showed their readiness to assist a good cause. The large receipts from sales of stamps indicate that many thousands of New Zealanders have decided during the currency of the campaign to replace their ordinary, stamp purchases completely by the “Penny for postage, penny for health” stamp, the sales in the first week having been £BOO/14/2 in excess of the corresponding week’s total last year (£768/7/-. The amounts made available for health camp purposes from the respective postal districts during the first week were as follows: —

Wellington . . ... .£790 4 3 Christchurch .... 528 10' 5 Auckland .... 478 1 9 Wanganui .... 424 3 10 • ) 1 6 Nelson .... 210 6 11 Palmerston North .... .... 187 2 On inn ru .... 109 1 9 Napier .... 105 11 r riiiiTnt‘c ... S9 0 Hamilton 11 Invercargill ., • .... 67 9 4 Timaru .... 62 4. Blenheim 10 6 New Plymouth *. • • <, .... 47 16 1 Gisborne .... 23 17 4 Grey mouth .... 14 10 8 West port .... 11 16 General Post Office .. .... 196 0 6 Health stamp sales in the first week reached the impressive total of 376, 574,