Tokelau Postage Stamps
pp. 35-36 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor 1 THINK that in your September article about Tokelau Islands postage stamps you are somewhat wide of the mark.
These small atolls are not a depen dency of Western Samoa, or even of New Zealand. They are a distinctly separate British possession, which the United Kingdom Government has empowered the Governor-General of New Zealand to administer. Surely it was constitutionally wrong for them to use the postage stamps of a Mandated (now a Trust) territory.
The new issue is in three small values only, from id. to 2d. Could this not be taken as evidence of a desire to issue only stamps that are needed, and to avoid profiteering from philatelists?
The 1,400 people of the Tokelau Islands have really no right to use anyone’s stamps but their own. True, they are few. But what of Pitcairn Island?
I am, etc.,
C. G. R. Mckay.
Whangerei, NZ. Oct. 13, 1947.
The New Zealand (Soccer) Football Association has promised to send a team of 16 players and a manager to New Caledonia about mid-1948. They are ex pected to stay in Noumea about a month and will play five matches. The invita tion to the New Zealanders was issued by the Ligue Caledonienne de Football Association.