HEALTH CAMP APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 7

HEALTH CAMP APPEAL

SMALL SALES OF SPECIAL STAMPS. Health Stamp sales have suffered a serious set-back this year, and the Children's Health Camp movement is in danger of being handicapped for funds. Sales of the Health Stamps commenced on October 16. and the returns for the first fortnight will enable health camps to benefit to the extent of £766. This sum is in strong contrast with that received during the first two weeks of the previous year's campaign, from which the health camps received £1.365. There are. of course, adequate explanations of the lessened public buying of Health Stamps. The financial necessities of New Zealand's war effort involved a postal surtax, with the consequence that the former 2d Health Stamp is now 3d. including its penny for health, and the lid Health Stamp carries a half-penny for the camps. The detailed figures show that in every one of the 18 postal districts there are customers of the Post Office i who. despite the anxieties of the times| have not forgotten to use Health Stamps as a simple means of helping under-nourished and ailing children tc gain health and vigour, but the greal variation in results in different districts suggest that the children's need has been overshadowed by other considerations. Last year, the Health Camp organisations, which cover every district in the Dominion with their benefiicent work, received over £7.000 from the Health Stamp campaign, this money being distributed in proportion to the receipts from each district.