HEALTH STAMP DRIVE STARTS NEXT WEEK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 99, 24 September 1948, Page 5

HEALTH STAMP DRIVE STARTS NEXT WEEK

Whakatane’s Aim Will Be £258 To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of health stamps in New Zealand, a special drive to sell £IOO,OOO worth of the 1948-49 issue will be made between the beginning of next month and Christmas. .Each postal district in the Dominion has been allocated a quota based on the sale of 3/9 worth of stamps to every household in the country—enough to post 15 letters and give 1/3 to health camps. On that basis, Whakatane’s target is £258. Local campaigning will start with a canvass of the business houses in the town on October 1. That will be followed a little later with a house-to-house, sales drive. The campaign will actually run until the end of January, but it is reasonably certain that Whakatane’s target will be reached well before Christmas if the people of this district respond as they usually do to worthy causes. First-day covers in limited quantities will be available at post offices on Friday to give philatelists plenty of time to address them before -October 1. The. new design shows a lad sitting in a window of a health-camp, watching children at play against a ’background of typical New Zealand scenery. The lad stamp is printed in a green frame with a blue centre, and the 3d denomination has a red frame and a brown centre.