CHARITY STAMPS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17763, 10 December 1929, Page 5

CHARITY STAMPS.

ON SALE TO-MORROW.

MINISTER'S APPEAL.

STAMP OUT DISEASE.

The secretary of the General Post Office writes as follows: —It is desired to bring to your notice the effort which is being put forth by the Post and Telegraph Department and the Health Department to reap from the spirit of goodwill which is existent generally during the Christmas season a substantial sum of money to be devoted to the prevention of tuberculosis within the Dominion. The money is to be raised by selling Charity Stamps, which will be placed on sale at post offices throughout the Dominion on Wednesday, the 11th December. The stamps are to be sold at 2d each. Each stamp has a postage value of Id and a Charity value of Id. The purchasing of the, combined stamps is entirely voluntarily. The secret of the success of the Charity Stamp scheme lies in the fact that no one, however poor, need forego the satisfaction of subscribing his mite to the good cause. It is proposed that the proceeds of the appeal in the first instance shall b,e devoted to the setting up throughout the Dominion of health camps for improving the health of ill-nourished and debilitated children and of children who are contacts with cases of tuberculosis in their own homes. It is understood from the Health Department that many children who are contacts of tuberculosis In their own homes and who ultimately contract and die of the disease, would be spared if at the time of contact and before the disease developed jthey were removed for a time to a health camp in the country. It is beKered that "most people will welcome the opportunity of assisting in some small way towards brightening the lives and improving" the health of the children who it is proposed should benefit. It is honed that business firms in particular will use the stamps on at least a portion of their correspondence. The outgoing in the case of each individual giver will be a comoarativelv small sum; but. if each person contributes, the aggregate result for the Dominion as a whole will be a substantial sum of money. The scheme > offers a unique onportunitv for all to turn into health; health for those little ones—frequently from poor homes—who have been in contact with, and are in danger, of developing, tuberculosis. Each Charity Stamp purchased will assist in stamping out the disease.