TWO HEALTH STAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 7

TWO HEALTH STAMPS

♦ BROADENING THE CHILDREN’S APPEAL. : TWO ISSUES THIS YEAR. The Post Office, for the tenth year in succession, will make its appeal for the Health Camps of the Dominion when the Health stamps are placed on sale on Monday, October 2. Health Camps now play so large a part in the care of delicate and debilitated children that the value of this form of preventive medicine is thoroughly recognised by the community, and Health stamp purchases provide the main financial foundation for this splendid work. With the object of widening the opportunities for helping the Health Camps, two Health stamps will be issued this year. One denomination is to be printed in green, having a postage value of a halfpenny and costing a penny so that half the value can'be applied to Health Camp funds. Thus contributions may be made by those persons who use the mails for receipts, post-cards, newspapers bearing the halfpenny rate and many commercial papers. The second stamp, which conforms to the familiar slogan of “a penny for health and a penny for postage,” will be sold at 2d and carries a postage value of a penny. By combining the two Health stamps the public will be able to utilise them for overseas mails on the Empire air-mail service at the Ud per half ounce rate. This year’s design, which is being utilised on both denominations, depicts three lusty boys vigorously keeping high in the air a medicine ball inscribed "Health.” They are playing in a field, obviously enjoying this healthy recreation which the Health stamp makes available to so many children each year. The design was prepared by Mr S. Hall, of Wellington, and the stamps’ have been effectively printed by the Note Printing Branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.