CHILDREN'S CAMPS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1938, Page 9

CHILDREN'S CAMPS

SALE OF HEALTH STAMPS OVER £3000 REALISED New Zealand's health camps. for under-nourished children are due to commence their activities,; and the vol-i untary workers who carry them on will1 be encouraged by the public response to the post office annual appeal through the medium of health stamps. Irt ihe, week ended November 25 the finance of; the camps benefited from stamp saies and donations to hhe extent of £656 16s 8d, a remarkable achievement for one week. Ihe finanCial results for the seven weeks since the opening of the campaign show how Widespread will be the benefit of the camps, as receipts from stamp saies in each district are devoted 'to the deserving children of the same area. Details of total stamp saies and credits to the camps from the postal districts to November 23 are: —

| 754,232 £3142 12 8 Over 750,000 health stamps have been sold, with the result that the movement in aid oi the children is already assured of £3715 16s ld. This sum falls considerably short of the total required to 1 meet the cost of the maintenance ef over 4000 children in the camps.

Credit to health Stamps camps, sold. £ s. d. Auckland 177,782 -740 15 2 Blenheim 7,338 30 11 6 | Christdliureh 64,700 269 11 8 I Dunedin 47,546 198 2 2 Gisborne :••• 15J08 65 9 0 Greymouth 5,641 23 10 1 Hamilton- 42,641 177 13 5 Invercargill 14,578 60 14 10 Napier 37,528. 156 7 4 Nelson 21,220 88 8 4 New Plymouth ..... 28,995 120 16 3 Oamaru 13,012 54 4 4 Palmerston North . . 61,324 255 10 4 Thames • 16, 673 69 9 5 i Timaru 13,379 55 14 11 I Wanganui 44,259 184 8 3 Wellington 122,368 509 17 4 j Westpbrt 2,564 10 13 8 1 General Post Office 16,976 70 14 6