Money In Stamps

Tokelau Island Issue Now Out

JJ ALE of stamps and 100,000 first-day j covers will probably give the Tokelau Islands (a New Zealand dependency) lore revenue than it ever had before.

First issue of these stamps was made m June 29. New Zealand newspapers say hat the first-day covers were taken shore in canoes—all this having been ar anged before-hand by the New Zealand Jovernment.

The Tokelau Group has hitherto used /estern Samoan stamps, without any ill fleets. However, while philatelists fall ir these things, there appears to be no ood reason why Governments should not ash in on their hobby.

It is interesting to note that Pitcairn sland has made £40,000 out of the sale of