UNITED NATIONS DAY

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27796, 22 October 1955, Page 5

UNITED NATIONS DAY

Sir, — I notice on mail received this morning that the Post Office is rancelling stamps with the following advertisement, "United Nations Day, 24th October.” I would like to ask if this is being done in the ordinary course of business, and, if so, who is paying for it If it is not being done in the ordinary course of business, I would like to know who in the Post

Office authorised this action. I feel it is very discourteous for a public service to be< touting for an organisation which is seeking to undermine our national sovereignty and independence. It is, in fact, a gross insult to our Queen, to whom we all owe loyalty, to use an alien and subversive slogan to cancel postage bearing her effigy.— Yours, etc., F. W. N. WRIGHT. October 4, 1955.

[The Chief Postmaster (Mr H. R. Pool) said that United Nations postmarking had been done at the request of the Department of External Affairs as part of the plans for the universal observance of United Nations Day, which was instituted by the United Nations, of which New Zealand was a member. This was in accordance with the practice in previous years. The same slugs made for last year were being used again this year so that no additional expense had been occurred. The slugs were being used at Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.]