Stamp Men’S Complaint

STAMP collectors in various places are complaining rather bitterly about the equipment used by some postmasters in the British Solomon Islands. They say that they go to considerable trouble to purchase certain issues of Solomon Islands stamps and to have them properly postmarked and then their trouble is wasted because either the date stamps are worn out, or the ink-pads are completely dry, with the result that the can cellations are an indecipherable blotch, and the stamps have to be thrown away. One correspondent says that a complaint in strong terms was made to the BSI postal authorities months ago without result.

Maybe a word in the right quar ter will suffice. The British Solomon Islands government is not in a posi tion where it can ignore any source of revenue.