When Tonga Used Fiji’s

Postage Stamps

KDR a short time before the issue of the first Tongan postage stamps in August, 1886, current and 6d Fijian stamps were used, t none has been discovered bear l a Tongan cancellation earlier an August, 1866 (reports the mthly journal of an Auckland m specialising in Island stamps).

Lhe writer of the note then bos hes an envelope which was ought to his attention recently, [dressed to Robert Schmidt, Esq., o German Consulate, Apia, moa, it was postmarked at Nu alofa on January 9, 1888, and ars three 2d Fijian stamps. Some structions written along the top ge are indecipherable, the writer jrs, but there appears to be the trd “Maile”, which “leads one to mder if it could be the name of ship”. [t certainly could, as many old ners in the Islands will know. lile, a smart sailing craft, erated a regular service from ickland to Tonga and probably to moa as well. F. A. Eaddy’s Us Beneath the Southern Cross, viewed in January PIM, men ms the vessel. tfiss Moira MacDonald, the part moan girl who, while working at ? Bank of NZ, Apia, was given an portant role in the film, “Return Paradise,” arrived in Sydney late March for three weeks’ holiday, e was accompanied by a friend, *s. V. M. Croudace, of New York, to has been making a long visit Samoa. Sydney newspapers have adlined the fact that although )ira was offered an American film atract she preferred to stay at lia.