For Fiji

New Pictorial Stamps

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, May 21.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT of interest to philatelists the world over was made by the Fiji Government a few days ago, when an advertisement appeared in the Gazette calling for designs for a new set of postage stamps for Fiji.

This has been advocated at various times in the Legislative Council by elected mem bers, but the Governor had opposed it, stating that he was against making post age stamps a large revenue-producing factor, such as a new set would be.

The Postmaster-General is calling for pictorial designs for the following denom inations; Jd, Id, l|d, 2d, 3d, sd, 6d, 1/-, 2/-, 2/6, 5/. It is stressed that the designs must include characteristic or notable Fijian scenery or genre, or industrial, pastoral or agricultural views. The King’s head must also be included in the design. Mrs. Tufue Morris, an old resident of Fiji, died at her home at Onivero, Levuka, on May 11. She went to Fiji from Samoa some 50 years ago.

Miss Beatrice Blackwood, of Cambridge University, England, is now in Sydney, en route to New Guinea, where she will con tinue her anthropological studies.

Mrs. J. G. Nelsson, wife of Hon. “Gus ’

Nelsson, M.L.C., of Papua, sailed from Sydney for Port Moresby by the May Macdhui.

Miss A. Uppill, who has been spending furlough in South Australia, left Sydney by the Niagara on May 21 on her return to the Methodist Mission station at Nad roga, Fiji.

Sister H. Donoghue, of the Methodist Mission’s Salamo Hospital, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on May 22. Owing to ill-health she will not be able to re turn to Papua.