HEALTH STAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5

HEALTH STAMPS

SALE COMMENCES THIS MORNING. RAISING FUNDS FOR CAMPS. Commencing today the Post Office, for the eleventh consecutive year will by the sale of Health Stamps help in the annual appeal for funds for the support of children’s Health camps. This year’s stamps, like those of last year, are of two denominations, lid and 3d. They represent postage values of Id and 2d, and contributions to health camps of Jd and Id, respectively. The design used last year is being used again, the stamps depicting three happy, healthy boys playing in a field, and vigorously keeping high in the air a medicine ball inscribed “Health.” The lid stamp is printed in green, and the 3d in a light reddish-brown. The design was prepared by Mr S. Hall of Wellington, and the printing was effectively carried out by the Note Printing Branch, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Melbourne. Health camps now play so valuable a part in the care of delicate and debilitated children that the worth of this form of preventive and restorative treatment has come to be fuljy recognised by the community. Health stamp purchases provide a considerable portion of the funds necessary for this special work among the children; and the various health camp committees—whose services are entirely voluntary —are hopeful that, notwithstanding the difficulties and anxieties of the times and the many other calls on the family purse, public-spirited members of the community will once again rally to the the appeal of the children by using Health stamps on their letters and other postal correspondence. They will thus continue to earn the thanks of the many thousands of children who year by year are fortified in health to meet the demands of full and useful adult life.

There was quite a brisk enquiry for the new health stamps at the Post Office this morning.