Using Cook Is. Stamps In Nz
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Letter to the Editor WHY is it that Cook Island postage stamps are not negotiable in NZ and vice versa?
Although the Cl are officially part of the Dominion, one cannot use one’s left oyer Isiand stamps on a letter posted in NZ to the islands, nor NZ left-overs in Rarotonga when you return from your trip.
Surely the postal authorities could make the two interchangeable, as should have been done long before this?
I am, etc.,
E.G.
Mangaia, Cook Is., April, 1945.
Flight-Lieutenant John K. Edmonds, formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea, and who was in Wingate’s Chindit party when captured by the Japs in Burm is among the men set free in the recent liberation of Rangoon.
Mr. Martin G. Nielson, who was a plantation manager for Burns Philp on Ysabel Island (British Solomons) prior to the invasion, is spending a holiday in Sydney (which he had not seen for 30 years), after two years’ service with the American Forces. The Japs came sud denly to Ysabel one morning early in 1942, and Mr. Nielson escaped to the jungles of the interior, where he re mained out of sight for six months, before joining the Americans. He was assisted by the natives, with whom he always was on good terms.