ANZAC STAMPS

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 6

ANZAC STAMPS

RESULT OF CAMPAIGN

£8500 FOR RETURNED

SOLDIERS

The Anzac Commemorative Stamp issue made by the Post Office at the request of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association between April 27 and June 20 has been highly satisfactory, the gross sales for the eight weeks totalling just over £17,000. This total is subject to adjustment, but it can be said defin;i°ly that the amount to be paid to the Returned Soldiers' Association? will approach £8500.

The Arizac stamps were of penny and two-penny denominations, half of the amount in each case being for postage and the remainder a contribution by the public to the relief of necessitous cases among returned soldiers and their dependants. The campaign for'the sale of the stamps was conducted by 85 branches of the R.S.A., and in addition through the instrumentality of the Post Office a considerable overseas demand was Healt with, great interest being taken in this issue commemorating the twenty-first anniversary of the historic landing on Gallipoli. The details of gross sales at the General Post Office and in the various postal districts of the Dominion are as follows:—

£ s. d. General Post Office ... 1853 4 8 Auckland 2721 13 3 Blenheim ............ 190 19 10 Christchurch .., .1785 13 10 Dunedin 2693 2 5 Gisborne 453 16 10 Greymouth 116 Oil . Hamilton ............ 645 12 8 Invercargill .......... 427 47 Napier XX 10 5 Nelson 320 14 4 . New Plymouth 510 17 5 Oamaru 245 5 1 Palmerston North 740 ]2 5 Thames 344 19 6•■ Timaru ; 619 0 0' : i Wanganui 634 7 3 Wellington ........... 1990 16 9 Westport 58 7 9 Total .......... £17,181 4 11 ..: One feature of the campaign was the. issue of first-day covers. the Post Office arranging for a free distribution of envelopes. , The first-cover sales exceeded those of the New Zealand Pictorial and Western Sampan Pictorial issues, the total posted being 83,361. ',