HEALTH STAMP SALES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 282, 12 November 1936, Page 9

HEALTH STAMP SALES

First Week Easily Exceeds Last Year’s Sales (By Telegraph—Special to "Tribune.") WELLINGTON, Nov. 11. The 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, shows 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 £10,000: Stamps, £1,569 1/2; donations, £2,152 15/10; first week’s total, £3,721 17/-. 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 completely to replace their ordinary stamp purchases by the “penny for postage, penny for health” stamp. The sales in the' first week were £BOO 14/2 in excess of the corresponding week’s total. last year—namely, £768 7/-. The amounts made available for health-camp purposes from the respective postal districts during the first week were as follow: Wellington, £790; Christchurch, £528; Auckland, £478; Wanganui, £424;. Dunedin, £252; Nelson, £210; Palmerston North. £187; Oamaru, £109; Napier, £105; Thames, 89;-Hamilton,' £6B; Invercargill, £67; Timaru, £62; Blenheim, £55; New Plymouth, £47; Gisborne, £23; Greymouth, £l4; Westport, £11; General Post Office £196. Health Stamp sales in the first week reached the impressive number of 376,574.