[?] A Royal Hobby
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[?]r World of Stamps.—IX [?] A Royal Hobby
ANY world-famed personalities I are known to be keen stamp t collectors. This is a good thing t ensures that the collecting of ips as a hobby enjoys widespread >ort, as many will follow the tiple set by such personalities! jung Prince Charles, heir to British Throne, when a small I was presented with a stamp m by the schoolchildren of ford, and his mother. Queen Jbeth 11, who is herself a col r, has furthered his interest.
February of this year, when the h and the Duke of Edinburgh touring Portugal, it is reported, ren stopped the Royal car and, ell as offering her flowers, pre id her with a collection of iguese stamps for Prince les. lice gesture, indeed! is well known that the late George V and George VI took icerning interest in the royal ition.
ECHOSLOVAKIA is to issue rear stamps to mark the hold f a Youth Stamp Exhibition at ibice. I recall that Bolivia, in similarly printed stamps—six imber, for the Ist Students’ nal Stamp Exhibition. Early urrent Bolivian stamps figured sjects for the designs. le of the most attractive of [ zoological stamps have come East Germany, where a set of tamps has been issued to ise the famous Berlin Animal In striking fashion, the s give fine pictures of mts, rhinoceros, flamingoes, lons, bison and polar bears, of which are not natives of my at all. Nonetheless, such s are worthy additions to our ling collection of “zoo” stamps.
Charity Stamps
fity stamp issues are not new mp collectors, and over the have been issued to assist m aid of relief work amongst 3 of famine, floods, fire, earth i and cyclones.
Austria, which has done so for the relief of refugees from ry, was one of the first to ice special charity stamps. 7 stamps were re-issued with Ided premium. About the time, Spain circulated six for the same cause, inscribed, Hungarian Children ” The i portrayed a young boy and ainst an envelope.
August a gathering of over Scouts from about 100 g will take place in Sutton Id, Warwickshire (UK) in
connection with the 50th anniversary of World Scouting. Additionally, the occasion will be recognised as the centenary of the birth of Scouting’s founder, Lord Baden- Powell, who died in 1941.
Stamps from participating countries will feature typical Scout designs, that from the Netherlands Antilles picturing Baden-Powell who, incidentally, established the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the US) in 1910. Only recently, a month-long Guide Rally at Quezon City, at tended by delegates from 23 Pacific countries, netted a special Filipino stamp.
One of the dread diseases affect ing mankind is polio, otherwise in fantile paralysis, and stamps have been issued in recent times to direct public attention towards it. A woman
shielding her two children from its influence, figured on a new stamp from the USA, and the Argentine issued a stamp in appreciation of the help given to it by other nations of the world to combat the disease.
A little time before that another Argentine charity stamp appeared along the same lines, bearing the head of a woman affected by the fever.
Now eighteen years of age,.
Princess Ferial, daughter of ex-King Farouk of Egypt and ex-Queen Farida (Farouk’s first wife), first appeared on her country’s stamps in 1940; at the time she was only 18 months old. This was a pretty portrait study which was repeated in 1943, when the Princess celebrated her sth birthday.
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[nscribed in English and Arabic, » stamp was sold with a surtax augment children’s welfare funds.
Some of the early stamps from 5 South American republic of nezeula are inscribed “Escuelas” hools) and “Instruccion” (educa -3), but were originally intended duty stamps to assist in financ work amongst public schools. *hese stamps were adopted for mal postal use when a shortage '‘postage” issues existed. lx?" '• tr. W. G. Johnson, managing ictor of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter 'o. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva, flew to New land in April after a business t to Sydney, and in Auckland underwent an abdominal opera- L He made an excellent recovery, returned to Suva in May after jriod of convalescence and hoii in New Zealand. report has been sent to the aul Vulcanologist from the Dis ; Office at Bogia, NG Mainland, ; five inches of ash covered is village on Manam Island on il 3 and 4. About 800 feet of station has been burnt off from top of the mountain above is. This was reported by the ter of the motor vessel Koro.
t Fiji’s “navy”, HMS Viti, spent Easter at sea on a training cruise to Kadavu. Lieut. J. B. Wisdom was in command.
Returning in the "Tulagi" to BSI to the South Sea Evangelical Mission was Miss D.
Henderson, after a year's leave. She has had 24 years' experience in BSI, mostly on Malaita.
"Tulagi" carried Mrs. R. Ferris and daughter Suzanne (aged 3½ years) back to Bougainville, NG, where Mr. Ferris manages Arigua Planta tion.
Miss Lois Connerton, a Presbyterian missionary, returned to the Paton Memorial Hospital at Vila, NH. Miss Connerton has spent two and a half years at the hospital and has just completed six months leave in Australia.