YOUTH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 8

YOUTH

THE NEW HEALTH STAMP By Telegraph Hress Association WELLINGTON, August 24. The Health Stamp au a means of assisting the Health camp movement for the benefit of New Zealand children has become thoroughly well established and the Past Office will shortly be issuing its ninth of the annual series. The designs of the Health Stamp have always been appropriate to the object and this year’s is the fourth which depicts youth. The new Health Stamp will be vertical in shape, twice the size of the ordinary postage stamp and will be printed a rich rose. In this respect it resembles the Anzac stamp which commemorated the twenty-first anniversary of the famous landing at Gallipoli. The new design has the merit of boldness and simplicity, for it is not overloaded with detail. There is just one figure, that of a bare-head-ed boy, clad in shorts looking out from a mountain top, his right arm stretched over a rock. The light background of clouds fills in almost half of the picture and provides a very striking indication of the delicacy passible by means of the intaglio line engraving process. Close inspection of the new stamp reveals that the bolder features stand out in low relief. At the foot of the panel appears the familiar slogan “Id Pastage—ld Health” for the stamp will have a pastage value of Id and the remainder will b? available for the maintenance of children selected for treatment at the various Health Camps now soundly established and well organised in various parts of the Dominion. This is the fourth occasion on which youth has been the subject of a New Zealand Health Stamp. In 1931 there was depicted the head and shoulders of a smiling boy wearing an openfronted shirt. He was the very embodiment of health. After a few years of symbolic motives on the annually recurring issues, the Pest Office in 1935 utilised a life study of a little girl framed by a key-hole—“ The Key to Health. This proved a popular feature and a similar idea appeared in the following year, a small child being shown framed by a lifebelt—“Safeguard Health." The background was that of an attractive Health Camp site. It iG intended to place the new Health Stamp on Sale on October 1 and it will be withdrawn not later than February 28.