CHARITY STAMPS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 November 1931, Page 2

CHARITY STAMPS

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIG "Charity" stamps were placed c sale at all post offices in the Dominio on Saturday, in continuation- of ; %\ anti-tubercUlosis campaign commejn ed in 1929. ' On this occasion, there will be tv denominations of "Charity"' stam] — a 3d stamp (2d pOst., ld charity for letters and other artieles o which postage of 2d is required, an a 2 d stamp (ld postage and ld cha: ity) for newspapers, Christmas,card: packets and other artieles on whic the postage enclosed is ld. The funds raised will be applied 1 the establishment of permanent bdsi tliroughout the Dominion .for chi dren's health camps, which will 1 orgaiiised in a satjsfactpry and bus negslike way, with the eo-operation ( local communities. With ! the * funt subscribed during the efforts of th two previous years, the erfection o the first camp has been commencec and it is hoped that it will be use early in 1932. " The movement is a first line attac on incipient tuberculosis. The opii ion is definitely held by medical ax thorities that many children who ax contacts of tuberculosis in their ov homes may be saved from contractin the disease if they are removed for time to a health camp in the countr; It is to help children whose . parept cannot alford to. provide this protei tion from the danger of inf ection ihe the appeal is made. There- is urgei need for united action; and, notwitl standing that the present :*is a* vex difixcult period, it is hoped ' that -a members of the community will as sist to the best of their ability. Onl a little is asked, but that little i asked of everyone. . It may be added that the stamf will be on sale for a limited periodprobably until the end of Februai next. -Surplus istocks joi previor issues of "Gharity" '*- staxhps ha'V been destroyed; and, when the- stamp which are now placed on sale' ? ax withdrawn, surplus stocks of thes will also be destroyed. .