SPECIAL STAMPS SUGGESTED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 5

SPECIAL STAMPS SUGGESTED

TO AUGMENT PATRIOTIC FUNDS

INVALIDED SOLDIERS

WELLINGTON, May 25. . A deputation from the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Patriotic Society interviewed the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General, to-day to suggest that his department grant permission for a soecial stamp to be affixed to letters with the view of augmenting the patriotic funds generally, and in the. first instance the funds of the forthcoming Wellington carnival. "Mr. Rhodes.nbinted .out that he had had similar applications from «||||pral sources since the war-be-gan, if he made a concession to one organisation he would have to make, it to all. The matter had^lready received the consideration of the Cabinet, •,._."

Mr Rhodes mentioned' that f another suggestion was that the postage rates should be increased as a war tax, but no decision had yet been arrived at by the Cabinet. He informed the deputation that he had just received a specimen of a Canadian one cent stamp overprinted ' 'War tax.'' This stamp was apparently required to be attached to every posted letter in addition to the regular postage. _. ■ DUNEDIN, May 25. Among the passengers by the Mokoia from Australia were 15 members of the reinforcements invalided home from Albany. The men.were medically inspected at Invercargill, where one ol them landed and the others are arriving here this evening. All the men are due to disembark at Wellington, and thence they will proceed to Ihentham There seems to "be no case ot serious disease amongst the men