N.Z. ISSUE
OF CORONATION STAMPS
LARGE NUMBER UNSOLD
Per Press Association- Copyright)
AUCKLAND, February 11
Over 215,000.000 of New Zealand's Penny Coronation stamps remained unsold when the stamps were withdrawn from circulation at the end of December and will have to he destroyed. The number of stamps sold between Coronation Day, May 12, and the end of the vear was 42,099,661 as follows: —Penny issue 38.455.554 ; iwepenco half-nenny is;„e, 1,564,496; sixoenny issue, 2,079,611 ■ The numbers of the stamps printed were: Peniiv, sixty mil'iou; 2jd, two million ami 6d, three million.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19380212.2.48
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1938, Page 7
Word Count
90N.Z. ISSUE Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1938, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in