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ANEW ZEALAND scheme to corner the issue of Western Samoa commemor ative stamps and to sell them to Eng land as a means of gaining sterling funds was nipped in the bud by the N.Z. Gov ernment.
One business man in Wellington had been asked to subscribe £2,000 to a syndi cate which, with £5,000 capital, would buy up most of the issue, market it among English philatelists, and sell sterling to New Zealand importers. Profits of 600 per cent, were hoped for and 15 per cent, was guaranteed.
Mr. Percy Maxwell George Harris, of Samarai, who is a nephew of Mr. E. C.
Harris, formerly Treasurer of Papua, married Miss Elizabeth Mary Murray, of Sandringham, Victoria, at St. John’s Anglican Church, Port Moresby, Papua, on August 8.