HEALTH CAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 3

HEALTH CAMPS

FOR BENEFIT OF AILING CHILDREN i SALE OF SPECIAL STAMPS OPENS TODAY. GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S APPEAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Support for the 1943 health stamp campaign was appealed for by the Go-vernor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) in an address last night. “We are fighting this the greatest war known to history in order that our children shall receive from our hands the heritage which we hold in trust for them,” his Excellency observed. “We are fighting that they may live the lives we would have them live, as free and responsible citizens of a nation, an Empire and a world where tyranny and oppression shall not prevail. Throughout our struggle, therefore, we must never allow ourselves to forget those who are children today. Their spiritual, mental and physical well-be-ing must be a first consideration with us. We cannot do too much for them.” Having touched upon the history of the health camp movement and the important part it played in New Zealand’s policy of child welfare, the GovernorGeneral added: “From tomorrow morning a new issue of health stamps will be on sale in every post office in New Zealand. There is a IJd stamp and a 3u one. In themselves they are things of beauty and of great interest for, by special permission of the King, the lower denomination, which is green, bears a portrait of Princess Margaret, and the higher, which is brown, one of Princess Elizabeth. Moreover, they are the first triangular stamps ever to be issued in this country. From every one of the lid stamps you buy, the •Id will go to the Health Camp Fund, and from every 3d stamp Id. I commend them to you with all my heart. Use them on your letters and postcards. It is hoped to raise at least £25,000 in this way.

“I am sure that you will do your share 'and enable this goal to be attained, for I know how generous the people of New Zealand are in supporting any really worthwhile cause. This, as I have tried to show, is a cause of the highest possible importance, for the health and happiness of many of the next generation depends upon it.”