NEW SET OF STAMPS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 12

NEW SET OF STAMPS

New Zealand stamps are now being produced in Japan for the first time. A set of two, which will be Issued on September 19, is being printed by the Japanese Government Printing Bureau in Tokyo. A 3c stamp would commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of universal suffrage in New Zealand, the Chief Postmaster in Christchurch (Mr M. E. Wilson) said yesterday. The 10c stamp recognised the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by the

United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mr Wilson said that the theme of universal suffrage was symbolised by the hands of a man and a woman placing votes in a ballot box. The photograph was taken from the original design by Mr J. Berry, of Wellington. The surround is olive green, the background of the inset is light blue and the ballot box and hands are in shades of brown.

The central feature of the 10c stamp is the flame which has been adopted as the sym-

bol of human rights, encircled at the base by the wreath of the United Nations. The flame is red with a yellow halo, the background is emerald green and the lettering white. Mr Wilson said that unless stocks were exhausted earlier the set would be withdrawn from sale at all post offices on December 31. It would remain on sale at the Philatelic Bureau at the General Post Office in Wellington, and the philatelic sales section of the Chief Post Office in Christchurch until June 30 next year.