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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1950Vol. XX, No. 8

Niue Island Stamps

p. 39 · Read in the full issue

FIRST issue of Niue Island stamps will be issued on June 1.

It was hoped to have had them on sale earlier but this has not been pos sible owing to shipping delays.

Mr. Ken McMullen, formerly a well known District Officer in New Guinea, and more recently a Rabaul director of New Guinea Co., Ltd. (the Carpenter

organisation) has taken over the manage ment of Mr. Dyson Hore-Lacy’s plantation at Talasea, New Britain. He succeeds Lieut.-Colonel Cameron, who won the DSO and Bar during the war in New Guinea, and who has now returned to Australia.

Mr. Reginald Savage, Resident Agent of Puka Puka, Northern Cook Islands, with his family, have been on leave in New Zealand for some months.