HEALTH STAMP SALES STEADY AT WHAKATANE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 26, 29 November 1948, Page 4

HEALTH STAMP SALES STEADY AT WHAKATANE

Required Total Is Not Yet Reached The Whakatane Post Office is just £2/10/- short of it’s target of £258 in the sale of health stamps. However, the required amount is expected to be received in the next few days, if the present rate of sales is maintained. During the latter part of October and this month the weekly sales have averaged about £4, which is considered by postal officials .to be very steady. The campaign is due to end on January 31 next year, but all stamps will probably be sold either by the end of this month or early in December. While many postal areas in the Thames district, of which Whakatane is a part, have reached their respective targets, none is in the same curious position as Whakatane. In a comparatively short distance from the town there are several small post offices not attached to Whakatane and their sales are not added, but are taken as a separate total.

As an example, Kopeopeo, which should be attached to Whakatane, has sold just on £9 worth of stamps. This added to Whakatane’s figure, and the required £258 would "have been reached and passed by now. The Whakatane district consists of town householders and subscribers on the rural delivery. The proposed Dominion total 'ls £IOO,OOO, £2690 of which is to be raised by the Thames district. During, October, the first month of the sales, £90,010 was received throughout the country, compared with £76,157 for the same period last year.

As stocks of -the stamps in New Zealand are now almost exhausted, anyone wanting further supplies will have to' make early application. More sheets have been ordered for the Whakatane post office but these, when they come to hand, are not expected to last very long.