Postal Union Stamps For
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Wphc Islands
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Sept. 11.
THE Western Pacific High Commis sion has announced that Pitcairn Island postage stamps (2£d., 3d., 6d., and 1/- sterling) commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Postal Union will be on sale at the Commission’s Suva offices for three months from October 10.
The Postal Union anniversary stamps of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Id., 2d., 3d., and 1/- Australian), will be sold for the same period at the main Post Office in the G. and E.I. Colony.
It is not generally known that Phor mium Tenax plants from New Zealand (the common “flax”), imported into St.
Helena 35 years ago have flourished to such an extent that the production of hemp fibre is now the island’s main industry. Most of the 1,000 tons of hemp fibre annually exported goes to England, to be made into light cord.