A New Excitement for Philatelists
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
IT appears that funds are needed for Pitcairn Island; and officialdom pro poses to work the usual gentlemanly ramp against philatelists.
At present, without suffering or incon venience, Pitcairn Island uses the post age stamps of New Zealand—possibly under some arrangement between New Zealand and the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Suva (under whose jurisdiction Pitcairn Island is).
Now, however, an official is going from Suta to Pitcairn Island to arrange for a special issue of pictorial stamps for Pitcairn Island. Every stamp collector in the world immediately will be in full cry after this new issue and. on a con servative estimate, based on what has happened elsewhere, the Postmaster- General of Pitcairn Island should net from £lO.OOO to £20,000.
Mr. W. R. Huntley, of the Methodist Mission station at Vunakabi, New Britain, is at present on furlough in Queensland.
Mrs. L. Morey, of Suva, left Auckland f 9 r Fiji early in January after a month’s visit to the Dominion.