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Stamp Issue
)ESIGNS have been published
of six new Norfolk Island stamps, which will be issued on line 10. The issue thus will be ssociated with the celebrations hich take place annually on Nor >lk Island to commemorate the rrival there, on June 8, 1856, of le Pitcairners. (Tiny Pitcairn Island became so fercrowded with the descendants f the Bounty mutineers that the ritish authorities, in the middle of st century, decided to shift the Itcairners to fertile Norfolk Island, hich had been colonised as a con ct station between 1825 and 1850. 3ss than half the Pitcairners re amed, however —the rest went ick to Pitcairn).
Five of the six stamps carry pic res of the ancient buildings which ere part of the convict station, tie sixth is more interesting—a odern plane on the airfield, and, the background, some survivors the once famous Norfolk pines tiich formed a magnificent avenue iestroyed in the war period so that e airfield could be constructed).