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PITCAIRN ISLAND MOVE. BUILD UP CAPITAL FUND. Pitcairn Island is to have a proper constitution and. legal system. It will be instituted 'by Mr. H. E. Maude, of the British Colonial Service, who, with Mrs. Maude and their young eon, is visiting Auckland on his journey from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, where he has been stationed, to Pitcairn Island. Mr. Maude was stationed previously in Fiji and Zanzibar.
He said that there had been a legal system at Pitcairn, but it has not yet been properly drawn up. He will also prepare accommodation at the island f<->r an official from the Fiji Post Office, who will inaugurate an issue of Pitcairn Island stamps under the control of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. The issue of these stamps on October 15, to replace the New Zealand stamps hitherto sold, would build up a capital fund to benefit the islanders, said Mr. Maude.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 172, 22 July 1940, Page 4
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