Schoolhouse

Stamps Built This Schoolhouse Fine Work of A. W. Moverley on Pitcairn

rO new stamps have been added to the current Pitcairn Island issues. One shows the now amous Bounty Bible and the other tie almost equally famous school ouse both of which, in themselves, re directly connected with the

©stage stamp business—which, in

'itcairn, is big business.

In 1940, Pitcairn got its own post ge stamps for the first time. By le end of the war sufficient profits ad been made therefrom to pro ide for a school house, a school jacher and a schoolteacher’s resi ence. Mr. A. W. Moverley, a New ealand schoolteacher, was selected

ir the job and i June. 1948, he rith Mrs. Mover jy and their oung daughter, aree Indian radesmen, and K) tons of school ouse, residence nd furniture, left uva, Fiji, in the ,CS Awahou.

For the first 12 lonths, while orkers were car ing ledges for ihoolhouse and jsidence on Pit lim’s steep hill des and erecting le buildings, the [overlays lived ith the Island’s hief Magistrate, [f. Norris Young.

Mr, Moverley as been more

ian a schoolteacher to the Pit imers’ children, however. He, ith Mrs. Moverley, has taken a eat interest in their social ac uities, started Guiding and Scout g and, above all, has been keenly terested in the romantic history the people.

It was through his efforts that e old Bounty Bible was recovered om Hartford, Connecticut, and turned to Pitcairn in 1950. Mr. overley is now hot on the trail of ie original John Adams’ tomb one, made of Bounty timbers and sunty copper which is in the issession of a Mrs. Moresby-White Nottingham, England. Latest Ivice is that it is now awaiting ipment back to Pitcairn.

The new Bounty Bible postage amp is designed as a permanent ibute to the generosity of the mencans in returning the relic

to Pitcairn; just as the schoolhouse postage stamp is a tribute to the work of Mr. Moverley.

However, both should be money spinners and in their turn no doubt will earn enough to provide some other amenity for this lonely speck in Oceania.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Fenske, of the Lutheran Mission Station on Kran ket Island, off the Madang coast, NG, have flown to Australia, where Mr. Fenske will undergo an opera tion.

Mrs. Lillian Millar, a well-known pre-war identity of New Guinea, who now is managing the North Sydney Travel Bureau in Australia, paid a short visit to Papua at the end of September to organise ar rangements for the visit of a party of American tourists. They will fly to Port Moresby shortly by TOA service and stay for a time at Rouna Falls guest-house.

The school and teacher’s residence beyond.