THE STAMPS YOU LOVE TO LICK

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28008, 30 June 1956, Page 8

THE STAMPS YOU LOVE TO LICK

WHIM WHAMI The issue of two commemorative postage stamps to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Zealand frozen meat industry has been approved by the Post-master-General. Mr Shand. . . . Details of the designs will be announced later. ... —News item. It isn't only the Gum you lick From the Back of the Stamp, that makes you sick. It’s the Art on the Front that causes Pain, . i The Colourings crude, the Designs inane, , __ .. That so often disfigure a Joker s Mail, Turn the fastidious Philatelist pale And cause the Discerning (who maynt be Highbrows) To blush to the Roots of their sensitive Eyebrows. There's a Stamp that sticks in my Mind, somehow. Depicting a Female, a Sheep and a Gow , „ In Profile, the three of them Side by Side , . a In a Landscape otherwise empty ana wide. That female Figure, that Cow, that Sheep, . . They haunt my Mind and disturb by Sleep: A Cow and a Sheep and a Female, thus Assembled, a Post Office Puzzle for Us— What are they waiting for? Is it a Bus? Is it something SYMBOLIC? The Hope of the Ages? Or a fat cream Cheque and a Rise in Wages? —But What (coming round to the Point) shall we Find on the Stamps that are going to be Struck off for the Freezing Industry? A Leg of Lamb and a Dish of Peas Would suit the Subject and probably • please: A succulent Leg, perhaps a Forequarter (Easy to lick, it makes the Mouth water): A Freezing Works Vista—no Sight could be finer! Or Carcases stowed in the Hold of a Liner: Or Sid at the Table, with Carvers in Hand, A Symbol that All of us understand-’ Or Sid with the Gravy-boat?—THAT'S the Ticket! If Sid can take it, us Jokers can Stick it.