Anzac Stamps To Be Issued Today

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30725, 14 April 1965, Page 11

Anzac Stamps To Be Issued Today

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 13

Seven new stamp issues will be made by the Post Office between tomorrow and Christmas. Tomorrow, the controversial Anzac stamps will be on sale.

When the designs, which included the Flanders poppy, were released last year, there were many protests that the poppy was not symbolic of the Anzac landing. It was agreed, however, the flower was symbolic of human sacrifice in war, and the Post Office compromised by incorporating the poppy on the 5d stamp only. Three new issues—two New Zealand and one Cook Islands —will be made next month, the first a 9d stamp to commemorate the centenary of the international telecommunications Union, on May 17. The stamp is being issued by all member countries of the union and will feature a globe with the letters I-T.U. on it and a flash, symbolic of the telecommunications signal. On May 24, the 7d Churchill commemoration stamp, being printed in Melbourne, will be on sale, and on May 31 a special stamp will be issued by the executive committee of the Cook Islands to commemorate the solar eclipse on Manuae Island the day before. Designed by a Wellington artist, Mr L. C. Mitchell, the stamp has as its main subject the sun in eclipse. Also included are the trunk and fronds of a palm tree. The stamp will be available to collectors at the Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin Chief Post Offices.

health stamps and the popular Christmas stamp, of which more than 20,000,000 were sold last year. Also to be issued, probably in mid-year, will be an addition to the present pictorial series in a 7d stamp depicting the Koromiki shrub. The stamp has been made necessary through increase of postal rates last year.

Special issues under consideration by the post office include those for the 1965