“CHRISTMAS SEAL” ISSUE.
• ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS FUND. “Tlve Christmas Seal,” a. 2d stamp —a penny being fiov postage and a penny for the anti-tuberculo-sis, fund —'will. probably be issued An! post offices throughout the Doeheritable works. It is considered opportune to introduce the stamps at this time of the year, and the charitable aim is expected to appeal to the community. The scheme gives an opportunity to those who can contribute only very modestly to shaji’ifable works. The fund is to -be used in the main for prevention work among children who are in contact with ■sources of infection. One of the objects is to inaugurate health camps to which children who have, been “contacts” with cases of tuberculosis'" can 'be sent. The Health Department hopes by this moans to safeguard many young lives. Each stamp will have a. postage value of Id only, and on receipts it will be necessary to affix two, thus providing foil’ the duty and leaving 2d for the health fund.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40036, 7 December 1929, Page 2
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164“CHRISTMAS SEAL” ISSUE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40036, 7 December 1929, Page 2
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