Attention, Philatelists
p. 70 · Read in the full issue
Rice Rationing Ends
In Bsip
A BIGGER rice crop in Australia last season has resulted in Gov ernment controls being removed from the importation and distribu tion of rice in the Solomon Islands. i Controls were imposed in BSIP the partial failure of the iAustralian rice crop in the 1951 ;season, due to the fact that, in that drought year, protected wild ducks ate the young rice, plants and the crop was about half normal. Lift ing of BSI rice controls became effective on September 9.
Attention, Philatelists
THE 6~d New Guinea stamp—the most commonly used in Papua- New Guinea because that is the price of airmail postage to Australia —has the small bar missing be tween the 1 and the 2 of the half penny. All the other current PNG stamps which include a halfpenny in their denominations are com plete with bar, so evidently this omission waft an accident somewhere along the line.
Presumably too many of the six pence - ha’pennies - without-a-bar
have been issued now for them to' become a rarity: but a number of people, early in their issue, watched with interest to see if the mistake were rectified. If it had been, then the bar-less stamps would no doubt have become correspondingly valu able.
Mrs. Ayson, widow of the late Judge H. F. Ayson, CMG, who was Resident Commissioner, Cook Islands, from 1922 to 1937, was re cently married in Wellington, NZ, to’ Mr. Malcolm Mac Kay, of that city.