MANY SEEK STAMPS
Commonwealth Games Issue
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright)
PERTH, October 14
Overseas requests for Commonwealth Games stamps and postmarks are now so numerous that three extra men have had to be added to the GP.O.’s special games philatelic bureau to handle the orders.
Letters of inquiry and orders are coming in from all over the world at a rate of 150 a day. Nearly 1000 orders have been received since the bureau opened on September 3. Many philatelists have asked for the full set of 25 pictorial venue postmarks, including a Nebraska collector whose order cost £47,
Requests have been accompanied by foreign, coins, postal notes, bank drafts, bank notes and cheques from all Australian States, New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malaya, end Zanzibar.
Orders will be fulfilled when the stamps come into service.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29953, 15 October 1962, Page 3
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143MANY SEEK STAMPS Press, Volume CI, Issue 29953, 15 October 1962, Page 3
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