Papuan Anniversary
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
Stamps
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, May 16.
THE Chief Postmaster of Papua, the Hon. E. C. Harris, has announced that the special issue of stamps to commemo rate the 50th anniversary of the annexation of Papua (British New Guinea) will consist of four denominations, with two designs only, each design to be used for two values.
The design chosen for the 1d and 3d values shows Commodore Erskine, of H.M.S. Nelson addressing the Motuan tribesmen when he promised them British protection and presented their chief, Boi Vagi, with an ebony stick, with a florin attached to the end of it.
For the 2d and 5d values the design de picts the ceremony of hoisting the flag near the mission station by the harbour of Port Moresby, with the five men-of-war, the Nelson, the Espiegle, the Raven, the Swinger, and the Harrier, lying anchored in the distance.
These commemorative stamps will be printed in limited quantities and will be on sale for only six months, unless pre viously exhausted, after which, it is un derstood, any remaining stocks will be withdrawn and destroyed.