CHILDREN’S HEALTH CAMPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 8

CHILDREN’S HEALTH CAMPS

' 1 ' '■ (To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir, —The “Children’s Charter” adopted l>y over 40 countries provides that in time of want children shall lie the last to suffer. ’ The New Zealand Health .Department every Christmas raises money for health camps for poor and ailing ■ youngsters by the said of Health Stamps. These are now on sale at our post office. The idea is that kind people while writing or sending gilts' to friends should voluntarily tax themselves for the benefit of needy little sufferers by paying two pennies instead' of one for postage. In addition to the direct contribution of one penny there is an indirect ,benefit by this advertisement of health camps. The stamps also are interesting to recipients and have a value to collectors. iThe local branch of the Victoria League lias been asked by the Borough Council to enlist the sympathy hot only of its own members but of the general public, m J’dverty Bay. The executive directed mo to ask your kind permission to make • this appeal through your columns, feeling sure that it only needs to' bo known to meet, with a. wide response, He (or she) must be very poor <m very hardhearted who cannot give one penny for the health and happiness of unfortunate little children.---!, am, etc., MARGARET LAWLESS, Hon. Secretary V.L.