SALE OF HEALTH STAMPS

Southland Times, Issue 23377, 8 December 1937, Page 15

SALE OF HEALTH STAMPS

GOOD DEMAND IN ALL DISTRICTS PROGRESS FIGURES STATED The health stamp is now so well established as the convenient method of contributing to the cost of the children’s health camp in New Zealand that its sales maintain a steady volume and more than 500,000 have been sold since this year’s campaign began. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. F. Jones) announces that the return of sales up to November 23 were 518,435, and that as the twopence paid for each stamp includes “A Penny for Health,’ the credit to the health camps amounted to £2160 2/11. There is a well-main-tained demand for the stamp in all postal districts, returns from-which for the full period of the campaign up to November 23 show the following results: — District Stamps sold Auckland 84,520 Blenheim 7,503 Christchurch 63,315 Dunedin ' 45,435 Gisborne 12,108 Greymouth 3,876 Hamilton 25,916 Invercargill 16,148 Napier 28,643 Nelson 9,259 New Plymouth 16,051 Oamaru 10,802 Palmerston North 26,665 Thames 12,583 Timaru 12,295 Wanganui 36,729 Wellington 80,006 Westport 2,296 General Post Office 24,285 Total 518,435 In addition to stamp sales, there were gifts amounting to £353 1/6, so that the health camp organizations have already received a total benefit from the campaign of £2513 4/5. Experience of past appeals creates the expectation that the health camps will be generously remembered during the Christmas season of goodwill and that even better results will be shown during the present month.