GISBORNE QUOTA REACHED BY CLOSE OF FIRST SALE-DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23374, 3 October 1950, Page 4

GISBORNE QUOTA REACHED BY CLOSE OF FIRST SALE-DAY

HEALTH STAMPS

Sales of health stamps from the Chief Post Office in Gisborne and from suboffices throughout the Gisborne postal district yesterday exceeded the quota fixed bv the central organising committee. The aggregate value of sales was £2o97—more than £IOO above the quota figure of £I9BO. In recognition of this achievement the district committee in charge of health stamp sales has received the following message from the director-general of tlie Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. P. N. Cryer: “Congratulations on excellent first-day health stamp success." During the week every effort will be made to add several hundreds of pounds to the district total of sales, and arrangements have been made for volunteer sellers from various women's organisations to staff a table in the foyer of the Chief Post Office. A stock of £OOO worth of the special - issue stamps remains to be disposed of, if the demand exists, and early indications today were that little difficulty would be found in achieving a result at least 25 per cent, in excess of the original target figure.

Sales of health stamps at the Chief Post Office in Auckland yesterday, the first day of the campaign, were a record. The value of stamps sold was £5720. compared with £4493 on the first day last year.—P.A. The sale of health stamps in Otago on the opening of the 1950 campaign exceeded last year's record total by almost £IOOO The value of the stamps sold in the Dunedin Hospital district was £9617, compared with the objective of £6940 set for the whole ot the campaign (about four months if the supplies last.)—P.A.