New Guinea Stamp

Designs

Letter to the Editor I DISAGREE with Mr. J. Nixoc westwood (PIM Dec.) when says he does not think mui of the new issue of Papua-Ni Guinea stamps, and with “Tolal? who says there is nothing ps ticularly artistic about the desig and subjects portrayed.

I think the issue as a whole a creditable job, artistically, wib out any individual stamp beii particularly outstanding; but I agr with Nixonwestwood when he ss that some of the stamps shoii have depicted some of the ments of Australia during her loi years of administration.

There is one thing which thought very strange. Consider! the part commercial aviation a; gold-mining have played in t development of both Territorii particularly New Guinea, an aei plane, and either an hydrau sluicing operation or a dredge, mig have been incorporated in the si they could both have been shoi on one of the big stamps. May it is intended, eventually, to extei the set by issuing a 5/- stamp, a £2 and a £5 stamp, as in the c TNG stamps, and that the features will be used.

I am, etc.,

Sydney.

Henry Mason