HEALTH STAMPS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 4

HEALTH STAMPS

PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN

The latest figures of the Health Stamp campaign, announced by the Director-General of the Post OlTice (Mr. G. McNamara), show that the total has reached £5719 8s 7d. Health camp plans for the summer are well forward in all parts of the Dominion, and the various organisations concerned have been encouraged to go ahead with confidence owing to the excellent public response to the appeal. Proceeds from donations and Health Stamp sales up till the end of October are being distributed from the C.P.O. to organised campaign committees, whose names have been forwarded to the Department of Health and recognised by that authority. There are 44 organised bodies throughout the country, and they are entitled to receive the campaign proceeds raised in their own locality. In many centres where there is no health camp in the immediate neighbourhood the local committees are utilising the funds to send children to suitable established camps. For instance, the Gisborne committee is arranging to send children to Otaki Health Camp, which has already been opened, and as a result of improved and assured finance is likely to operate the whole year round.

The latest district totals are as follows:—Wellington, £1403 0s sd; Auckland, £572 13s 6d; Napier, £497 13s 3d; Palmerston North, £473 16s 3d; Dunedin, £401 8s 7d; New Plymouth, £378 12s 2d; Christchurch, £356 lls 6d; Invercargill, £277 6s 8d; Hamilton, £269 8s 7d; Wanganui, £200 15s lOd; Gisborne, £199 15s 9d; Timaru, £160 2s 8d; Blenheim, £126 Is 7d; Thames, £122 lls 8d; Oamaru, £117 lls 6d; Greymouth, £103 6s lid; Nelson, £19 9s 9d; Westport, £9 2s.

The above figures make a total of £5719 8s 7d, of which £2638 0s 8d was secured from the sale of stamps, £259 0s 4d from sale o£ envelopes, and £2622 7s 7d from donations.