Hebrides Stamp
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£50 Prizes For New
Designs
Four prizes of £Stg.so each will be awarded for the best entries in four sections of a postage stamp design contest being conducted by the Anglo-French New Hebrides Administration.
The contest is to obtain designs for four new stamps, in both the English and French series, for issue in 1963.
Two of the designs must feature marine life of the New Hebrides.
These stamps will have denomina tions of 30 and 50 gold centimes (centimes-or).
The third design must feature the industrial life of the New Hebrides—denomination: 15 gold centimes (centimes-or); and the fourth, a bird indigenous to, or known to live in, the New Hebrides —denomination: 3 gold francs (francs-or).
All designs must include the words "New Hebrides" and "Con dominium" or "Nouvelles-Hebrides" and "Condominium" and the value in figures surmounted by the word "Postage" or "Postes" as appro priate. The letters EUR and St.
Edward's Crown and the letters RF and symbol are also to be in cluded.
Designs in English must have the letters EUR and St. Edward's Crown on the right and the letters RF and symbol on the left. The positioning of cyphers, etc., on French designs will be reversed.
The stamps will be printed in multi-colour photogravure and will be 39 mm. x 25 mm. perforation to perforation in horizontal format.
Designs, either drawings or photo graphs, must be in the same pro portion, 780 mm. x 500 mm. being preferred.
The Condominium Postmaster, Department of Posts and Tele communications, Vila, New Hebri des, will supply further information about the contest. Entries must reach him by March 15.