THE STAMP-COLLECTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE STAMP-COLLECTOR.

HEALTH STAMP. COMPETITION AWARDS.

By A. BROWN.

The results r»f our recent competition on the New Zealand Health Stamp are nub, l isherl to-day, together with winning say and judges' notes. I received a considerable number of em tries, and was very pleased with the stain dard of the work. Some of th<j -'essavj were excellent, and showed thst competitors were keenly interested in t\iia ting hobby. The first prize, a valuable Coronation set, of Persian stamps, 1915, gold and silver, has been awarded to MARION CURTIS, Aranga, Dargaville (Age 10.) The second prize, a set, of Portuguese Nyassa, has been awarded to GLADYS HALE, Kopurahi, (Age 15.) Highly Commended: Stuart Babbage, Jack Gordon, Dell Moody, Eileen Penk Charles Wrigley, Madge Dixie, Arthu* Goldfinch, Edgar Foy, Charles Robertson and Colin Hunt. You will note that both prizes have been won by girls. I expect this will put our boy readers on their mettle, ami that they will make keen effort to head the prize list iri our next competition, which will be. announced shortly. I thank all those boys and girls who entered for the contest, and I trust I shall hear from tliem again. If any reader desires any information on any special point, I will be very pleased to supply it, if he or she will write to ms direct' No. 3, Browning Street, Grey Lynn, en' closing stamped addressed envelope for reply. FIRST PRIZE ESSAY. I think the Health Stamp is a mosti excellent idea, as it must enable many children whose parents would otherwise be unable to afford medical treatment, to become healthy and strong. Also the tamps in the hills, with the lake or river in tho foreground show that they can have the advantages of water sports and hill-climbing, while the native pungas (slightly to the left of the picture), show that they can have the fun of rambles in the native bush, botany lessons, studying birds and collecting egg*-

I consider that every person who is a Ida to obtain the stamps convicntly should certainly use them, and if only one person in every family bought them, th« money would soon mount up, and would make scarcely any difference to their funds, as it costs only a trifle extra, but what a difference it must make to tha sick !

The clean, neat boy. who has just come from the camp, certainly looks as if ha had had a good time, so for that reason is a nioH appropriate design for the stamp, while from the stamp collector* point of view, it is a great convenience to nave the special purpose, name of country and date on which the samp is issued, while any person, I am sure, would l>s proud to have such a fine stamp with such a fine meaning adorning their letter or album.

Of course it must relieve the depression of tho unemployed, because as more children enter, more people must be employed to care for them, while the hospital board must find it 110 end of a >?lp. Wishing the Health Stamp a long and useful life. —Marion Curtis,. Aranga, Dargaville. (Age 10.)