HEALTH STAMPS
HELPING A GOOD CAUSE
If all who post Christmas packets and parcels would affix thereto one or more health stamps, numbers of sick and ailing youngsters would be the recipients of a splendid Christmas gift. The pennies soon add up, but many pennies are needed if the benefits of the health camps are to be extended to all who need them. ■
During the Christmas holidays there will be over 100 boys in camp. . Three square meals a day for 100 boys for six weeks, to say nothing of the provision of clothing, blankets, towels, etc., means a big expense. The King George V Memorial Fund provides the funds for building the camps: the public provides the funds for carrying them on. The Otaki Health Camp, like the others, is taking as many children as possible. What that number is depends upon the public's generosity. Gratitude for having healthy children can hp. shown in no better way than helping children not so fortunate in regaining their rightful heritage. .It is a small tiling to buy a few health stamps, but their purchase means a big thing to the children. "A happy Christmas" can be given to many by the simple expedient of purchasing health stamps, and in so doing one will have helped" in the laying of the foun^ dations of «■ healthier nation, ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10
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224HEALTH STAMPS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10
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