New Pictorial Stamps For
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C.I. And Niue.
fpHE present issue of the Cook Island Group f and Niue Island pictorial stamps will be extended on May 1 so that the denomin ations will range from Vfed. to 3/-, instead of utilising overprinted N.Z. stamps over 1/-. The new issues will comprise 1/-, 2/-, and 3/-, and it is intended to reproduce a portrait of King George VI. in a vignette. The 2/- stamp will contain in a central panel a native village scene, and the 3/- denomination will reproduce an Is lands seascape.
Mr. E. Lewis, formerly of Nyngan, N.S.W., has joined the staff of the Commonwealth Bank at Rabaul, New Guinea.
Mr. R. F. Pinder, of the Fiji Audit Department, has been transferred to Northern Rhodesia, South Africa, to be Government Auditor.
Mr. D. H. Larsen, Secretary to the Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, reached Auckland, N.Z., by the “Matua” in January.