HEALTH STAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 6

HEALTH STAMPS

CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE SALES. POSTMEN MAKING A CANVASS. In view of the poor response by the public in the purchase of health stamps, a final effort is being made to augment the sales before the stamps are withdrawn from sale on February 15. Postmen on Masterton deliveries are engaged in their spare time in canvassing householders and it is stated that the response so far has been quite good. Several postmen have sold as much as £2 worth of stamps each. It is thought that if householders are able to purchase a small number of stamps each week a most satisfactory sum will be raised before the stamps are withdrawn. Up to the end of January the total sales at the Masterton Post. Office since the beginning of October, when the stamps were placed on sale, amounted to £53. Last year the sales totalled £6O 8s 8d whereas in 1935. when an organised effort was made to effect sales, the receipts were as much as £lB6, of which sum £5O was received in donations.

The Postmaster has made arrangements with the local health stamp committee for Mr F. Dean to make a canvass of Masterton for the sale of stamns and it is hoped that considerable additional sales will result from this campaign.

The Postmaster, Mr M. M. Simpson, wishes to acknowledge receipt of a donation of £1 2s 6d from the Taueru School to the Health Camp Fund. Incidentally. this is only the second donation to be received for the current season. *

The District Nurse. Miss M. Hodges, stated this morning mat the Wairarapa Hospital Board district, which extends from Palliser Bay to Hawke’s Bay. is allowed a quota of eight beds at the Otaki Health Camp, for use by four boys and four girls from this area. Except during the recent measles epidemic, when children who had not suffered from that disease were not admitted to camp, the Wairarapa quota had been always filled. The children were never in camp for less than six weeks and if their health warranted it were allowed to remain a little longer.