It's 75 years since the GEIC became British
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A series of postage stamps to mark (a) the 75th anniversary of the raising of the Union Jack in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and (b) the introduction of a new constitution in the colony ( PIM, Aug., p. 39) went on sale at post offices on Tarawa on September 1. The stamps will be on sale for three months.
The series consists of three stamps of three cents, 10 cents and 35 cents. The first depicts HMS Royalist from which Captain E. H. M.
Davis, RN, raised the Union Jack at Butaritari in 1892. The second, depicting a tranquil island scene, symbolises the law and order that followed the raising of the flag. The third stamp depicts an Islands couple and their children, looking—according to the official GEIC news sheet—“hopefully to the future”.