ANZAC STAMPS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1936, Page 6

ANZAC STAMPS

RESULTS OF CAMPAIGN £BSOO FOII 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 adjustment, but it can be said definitely that the amount to be paid to the Returned Soldiers’ Association will approach £BSOO. The Anzac 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 tho R.S.A., and in addition through the instrumentality of the Post Office, a considerable overseas demand w«s dealt with, great interest being taken in this issue commemorating ’• the twenty-first anniversary of the historic landing on Gallipoli. Tiie details of -gross sales at the General Post Office and in the various postal districts of the Dominion are as follows: General Post Office £1.853, Auckland £2721, Blenheim £l9O, Christchurch £1785, Dunedin £2693. Gisborne £458, Greymouth £1.16, Hamilton £645, Invercargill £427 ( Napier £823, Nelson £320, New Plymouth £5lO, (baniaru £245, Palmerston North £740, Thames £344. Timaru £619, Wanganui ' £634, Wellington £1990, Westport £SB. Total: £17,181. One feature of the campaign was the issue of first-day covers, the Post Office arranging lor a free distribution of envelopes. ’The first-cover sales exceeded those of the New Zealand Pictorial and Western Samoan Pictorial issues, the total posted being 83.361.