New Stamps For P-Ng
pp. 47-48 · Read in the full issue
pAPUA-NEW GUINEA’S new issue of postage stamps—since the war they have been using Australian stamps— will be available on October 30.
There are 15 stamps in the complete set, from a denomination of ltd to £l.
All the stamps are shown on our cover this month.
Orders for unused stamps in bulk quantities or sets (full set is Australian currency) and for first-day covers should be sent as soon as possible to the Chief Postmaster, Port Moresby, Papua.
Arrangements have been made to des batch first-day covers, (1) with stamp affixed at a cost of 4d; (2) with stamps of Id, 2d, 2t£d and 3d affixed at cost of 9d; or (3) with such stamps affixed as are desired by the purchaser, for which the face value of stamps plus \bd will be charged. Pre-addressed envelopes will also be stamped and despatched in ac cordance with purchasers’ requirements.
All orders should be sent to the Chief Postmaster as soon as possible. Airmails leave Sydney for New Guinea almost daily and there is surface mail about every three weeks.
The designs of the stamps are as follows: }fcd, tree-climbing kangaroo (printed emerald green); Id, Buka head dress (light brown); 2d, native youth (blue); Bird of Paradise (orange); 3d, native policeman (dark green); 3»,fcd, Papuan head-dress (red); Kiriwina Chief house (purple); Kiriwina yam house (blue); 9d, copra making (brown);
1/-, trading canoe (medium green); 1/6, rubber tapping, (dark green); 2/-, Sepik dancing mask (dark bine); 2/6, plumed shepherd (dark red); 10/-, outline map of P-NG (medium blue); £l, native spearing fish (chocolate brown).
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lander have left Norfolk Island for the New Hebrides where they expect to live In future.
Among 30 people who laid wreaths on Brisbane’s Shrine of Remembrance on August 17 was Lieutenant Kamuel Abednego, a Thursday Islander, representing some 800 Torres Strait Islanders who, in 1942-45, served in the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion, in the New Guinea area.
These natives did a good job in the
war, in close association with Americans and Australians, es pecially in the Buna campaign.
A NZ Department of Civil Avia tion Dakota flew the Coral Route circuit to Bora Bora in August, checking all airfield and naviga tional facilities, including radio aids. Mr. A. Hewitt was the pilot.