OVER 1,000,000 HEALTH STAMPS SOLD

Northern Advocate, 11 December 1936, Page 4

OVER 1,000,000 HEALTH STAMPS SOLD

TOTAL VALUE SO FAR IS £BB4O

[Special to **.Northern Advocate.” 3

WELLINGTON, This Day

Over a million health stamps have been' sold in five weeks. The annual appeal for children’s health camps continues to make substantial progress,” states the post-master-General, Hon. F. Jones

He announced that the total receipts at the end of the fifth week are £8,840 9/7, comprising. Donations, £4,302 15/3, and health stamp proceeds £4,537 14/4.

The public response this year has been particularly prompt,” the Minister adds, “for the campaign is better off, compared with the end of the fifth week in 1935, to the extent of £3,844.

There are 441 staffs at the permanent post offices of the Dominion actively interested in facilitating the work of many hundreds of other willing helpers, all of whom are greatly encouraged by the prospect of early success in obtaining the £IO,OOO objective. Amounts now to the credit of the health camps from the respective postal districts are as follows: Wellington, £1,707; Auckland, £1,246; Wanganui, £996; Christchurch, £883; Dunedin, £724; Napier, £518; Palmerston North, £369; Invercargill, £329; Nelson, £323; New Plymouth, £323; Timaru, £245; Oamaru, £223; Hamilton, £222; Thames, £193; Blenheim, £93; Gisborne, £80; Greymouth, £7O; Westport. £22; G.P.O. Wellington, £265.

There has been an increase of 506,000 in the number of health stamps sold during the present campaign compared with last year, and the Minister suggests that during this sessson of goodwill, if the needs of poor and undernourished children continue to be remembered in the same generous manner, there will be no financial anxiety on the part of the health camp organisers, who are now busy with their health and happiness plans for some thousands pf New Zealand children. '*