NEW HEALTH STAMP

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 13

NEW HEALTH STAMP

aid for children's camps. The health stamp as a means of assisting the health camp movement for the benefit of New Zealand children has become thoroughly well established and the Post Office will shortly be issuing its ninth of the annual series. The new health stamp will be vertical in -shape, twlco the size of the ordinary postage stamps, and will be printed a rich rose. The new design has the merit of boldness and simplicity, for it is not overloaded with detail. There is just one figure, that of a bare-headed boy, clad in shorts, looking out from a mountain-top, his right-arm stretched over a rock. The light background of clouds fills m almost half of the picture and provides a striking indication of the delicacy possible by means of the intaglio line engraving process. Close inspection of the new stamp reveals that the holder features “3tand out in low relief. At the foot of the panel appears the familiar slogan, “id Postage—ld Health,” for the •stamp will have, a postage value of Id and the remainder will bo available for the maintenance of children selected for treatment at the various health camps In various parts of the Dominion. Messrs G. Bull and .1. Berry, of Wellington, w-re the designers. It Is intended lo place the new stamp on sale on October I. and it will he willidrawn not laler thin February 28.