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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 8

The Conciliation Council to discuss the terms of a new award for shop assistants throughout the Dominion will resume its sitting in Wellington on March 3. The secretary of the Christchurch Shop Assistants’ Union (Mr P. M. Velvin) said yesterday that it was hoped that the case would reach the Arbitration Court during its present session in Wellington. The new halfpenny stamp bearing a portrait of His Majesty King George VI will be issued by the New Zealand Post Office on March 1, replacing the fantail stamp of the pictorial series. The new stamp, when compared with earlier New Zealand issues in which Royalty figures, demonstrates the great advance made in reproduction processes, the portrait of King George being particularly clear in all details. It is a full-face engraving based upon a photographic study by Dorothy Wilding, London, and appears in a neat panel designed by Mr W. J. Cooch, Wellington, embodying the familiar Maori spiral motif in the design. The plates were made and the stamps printed by the intaglio line-engraving process by Messrs Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company, who were responsible for the New Zealand Jubilee and Coronation issues. The new stamp is a bright tone of green, known as almond. It is also intended to replace the present penny kiwi pictorial with a King George VI design some time in May. This stamp will be printed in rosered, in accordance with the International Postal Union regulation's, which prescribe definite colours for certain denominations.