TWENTY YEARS AGO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 9

TWENTY YEARS AGO

THE FIRST HEALTH CAMP. THIS YEAR’S APPEAL. One of the most attractive of the moving groups in the Pageant of Progress, the Post Office dioramic display at the Centennial Exhibition, depicts the beginnings of the Health Camp movement. It is is exactly twenty years since Dr Elizabeth Gunn commenced to provide an annual camp in the country at Turakina. The Pageant of Progress shows in the foreground children enjoying their morning drink of milk and in the background are the tents where they lived. Tents were used for the children's camp until 1930. but the moving pictures on the diorama showing the pre-sent-day development of health camps bring in the well-equipped Otaki institution. The first Health stamp, depicting a nurse, is also shown. The Health Camp movement has grown to large proportions since the days of the tents at Turakina. Several thousand children are dependent on the success of this year’s Health Stamp appeal for the opportunity of a beneficial change of air with good diet and suitable recreation in the many health camps established throughout the Dominion. As the Health Stamp campaign has only been in progress since October 16. the Post Office is unable to indicate the nature of the public response, but on the extent of the demand for tlie 3d and U Health Stamps, carrying their proportion of a Id and a Id. respectively, for the children, depends the success of this year's camp programme, which is almost entirely financed by the "pennies for health.”