Stamps
p. 66 · Read in the full issue
First Issue Tokelau Is.
More Revenue for NZ
rKELAU Islands postage stamps will be placed on sale for the first time about April and special souvenir first-day covers are now available at Gen eral Post Offices in New Zealand capital cities.
Because of the infrequent mail service to the Tokelaus, these first-day covers should be sent to the post-master, Apia, Western Samoa, as soon as possible. The post-master at Apia will make arrange ments for these to be cancelled in the Tokelaus on the appropriate day.
The New Zealand government, which administers the Tokelaus, no doubt hopes that the issue of postage stamps to these three little atolls (which hitherto have got along alright with Samoan stamps) will be as profitable as the issue of Nor folk Island (Australian dependency) post age stamps are alleged to have been. It is rumoured that £BO,OOO worth of Norfolk Island stamps have been sold since the first issue was made about a year ago.
Philatelists, like Barnum’s friends, are born every minute —to the profit of cynical
stamp-issuing Governments.