CHILDREN AT PLAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 8

CHILDREN AT PLAY

THE NEW HEALTH STAMP. ACTIVE SALES CAMPAIGN IN VIEW. The annual Health Stamp campaign which enables the children’s health camps of the Dominion to carry out their beneficient activities will commence on Saturday, October 1, when the new Health Stamp will be on sale. Following the precedent of recent years, the stamp has a design appropriate to the good cause which it serves. Slightly larger than the current Id King George, the Health Stamp of 1938-39 has for its leading feature two little children who are intensely interested in a toy. One child is sitting down on the grass, its companion bending over it in a typical childlike attitude, watching what it being done to the toy. The background includes a boldly drawn New Zealand tree fern. Three Wellingtonians (Messrs S. Hall, G. Bull, and J. Berry) co-operated in the preparation of the design, which has been reproduced with great fidelity by the intaglio line-engraving process, the printers being the well-known English firm, Messrs Bradbury, Wil-’ kinson and Company. The colour is a rich rose. Local committees which have rendered enthusiastic service in past campaigns will again co-operate with the staff of the Post Office in promoting an active sales campaign which is being given a renewed stimulus this year. The proceeds from the “Id for Health” stamp which costs 2d (its postage value being a penny) will be used for the benefit of children in the postal district where the funds are raised. Past campaigns have always produced a generous response, and as a result of the King George Memorial Fund the health camps have been extended and improved owing to the capital expenditure made available from this fund. They will thus be able to take a larger number of children during the coming summer, this, of course, involving a more liberal expenditure for their maintenance, which is provided from Health Stamp sales.