Papuan Commemorative
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Stamps
Mr. E. Harris, Treasurer of the Papuan Administration, who has been in Austra lia for some weeks, has completed pre parations for a special issue of postage stamps in Papua to mark this year (1934) as the 50th anniversary of the declaration of Papua as a British Protectorate.
There will be four denominations of these stamps—1d., 2d., 3d., sd.
The penny and threepenny stamps will bear a picture showing the scene when H.M.S. Nelson arrived at Port Moresby on November 6, 1884, with Commodore James Erskine speaking to about 20 chiefs, each of whom, after a promise of British protection had been made (a pro mise, incidentally, which has been faith fully observed), was given an ebonystick at the end of which was a florin showing the Queen’s head. Standing beside Com modore Erskine are the two first mission aries, the Rev. Mr. Lawes and the Rev.
Mr. Chalmers, both of the London Mis sionary Society.
The twopenny and fivepenny stamps show a sketch drawn in 1884 from a po sition near the first mission house, and shows the harbor in the distance, the present site of Port Moresby, and Paga Point.