HEALTH STAMPS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 13027, 27 November 1936, Page 3

HEALTH STAMPS

PUBLIC APPEAL TO-DAY PROPOSED CAMP IN POVERTY BAY The streets of Gisborne should present a. particularly busy appearance to-day, when the first public appeal for support for the Health Stamp Campaign Committee and the St. John Ambulance Association’s bathing belle candidate in the current coin petition will be made. Representatives of the different women's' organ isations will provide the workers to conduct (Street sales' of health stamps and badges and will receive donations lor the support of the joint candidate of the two bodies. The Health Stamp Campaign Committee, which was formed’ in Gisborne only last year, has been working quietly but .effectively, administering the funds at its disposal and organising the dispatch of' children to the health camp at Otaki. Since the commencement o c the sale of health stamps, 59 children have been sent from this district to the Otaki camp, and it is now proposed! to establish a camp in this district, in order to spare children the longer journey, and to relieve parents of the (strain of having their children so great a distance array. Should sufli c.cnt funds ho available, the new damp will bo erected at some central point, and it is hoped that 100 children will bo given the benefits of the health camp regime during the summer. The St. John Ambulance bathing belle candidate is Nurse Hansen, a popular member of the Cook Hospital staff. The work-of the St. John Ambulance on the various sports grounds throughout the year should alone ensure a very liberal response to to-day’s appeal.