IMPROVED RESULTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 8

IMPROVED RESULTS.

HEALTH STAMP CAMPAIGN. With the near approach of Christmas the health stamp appeal on behalf of children’s health camps has met with increasingly generous support. During the first week of December an additional £SOO was obtained for the various health camp organisations as the result of the sale of 102,546 health stamps, and the receipts for nine weeks since the opening of the appea : have now reached almost £SOOO. Organised effort in many centres has greatly improved the results by bring ing the health stamp with its “Id for postage and Id for health” more directly under the notice of Post Office customers, who appreciate this easy method of contributing towards a highly necessary and well-conducted movement for the children’s benefit. The results in the various postal districts for nine weeks ended December

992,902 £4,137 110 In addition to receipts from stamp cales, there have been donations totallino- over £BOO, thus bringing the amount to the credit of health camps up to £4944 18s Bd.

7 are as follow: — Stamps sold Auckland 207,238 Wellington 151,248 Christchurch 85.108 Credit to Health Camps £ s. cl. 863 9 10 630 4 0 354 12 4 349 4 5 Palmerston North 68.506 61,499 285 8 10 256 4 11 Napier 50,175 49.661 209 1 3 206 18 5 New”Plymouth ... 47,704 30,860 193 15 4 128 11 8 General Post Office Invercargill 28,052 26,112 22.036 116 17 8 108 16 0 91 16 4 20.731 - 86 7 7 Timaru 20.660 19,716 86 1 8 82 3 0 Blenheim Grey mouth Westport 10,184 6,745 2,854 42 8 8 28 2 111 17 10