£1000 A WEEK RAISED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1935, Page 5

£1000 A WEEK RAISED

HEALTH CAMP ORGANISATION.

READY SALE OF HEALTH STAMPS.

By’ Telegraph—Press Association. Wllington, Last Night. The thorough organisation of the children’s health camp movement, which centres around the sale of the 2d health stamps, is maintaining steady results, approximating to £lOOO a week. The campaign figures for the first three weeks announced by the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara, show that at the end of that period the sum in hand was £3llB 17s Bd.

While the cities show substantial results there are some surprisingly good returns from many other centres as disclosed by the following detailed figures of nett credits from the various postal districts:—

The total includes £1742 8s 6d from the sale of health stamps, £195 12s 6d from the sales of the illustrated health stamp envelopes and £llBO 16s 8d from donations.

£, s d Wellington ... 519 10 4 Palmerston North ...... ... 330 14 11 Auckland ... 319 13 0 Napier ... 308 8 6 Dunedin *..... ... 270 9 4 New Plymouth ... 233 15 1 Christchurch ... 221 7 7 Hamilton ... 165 17 11 Invercargill ... 157 12 5 ... 126 1 5 ... 93 '0 2 ... 92 13 9 ... 86 18 10 Greymouth ... 70 5 11 ... 54 9 0 ... 35 10 1 ... 27 12 0 Westport ... 4 17 5