ANZAC STAMPS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 9

ANZAC STAMPS

NATIONAL RESULTS OF CAMPAIGN. £8,500 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, hut it can be said definitely that the amount to be paid to the Returned Soldiers’ Association will approach £8.500. 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 for 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 dealt 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 follow : —General Post Office, £1,853 4s 8d; Auckland, £2,721 18s 3d; Blenheim, £l9O 19s lOd; Christchurch, £1,785 13s lOd; Dunedin, £2,693 2s sd; Gisborne, £458 16s lOd; Greymouth, £ll6 _os lid; Hamilton, £645 12s 8d; Invercargill, £427 4s 7d; Napier, £823 10s sd; Nelson, £320 14s 4cl; New Plymouth, £5lO 17s scl; Oamaru, £245 5s Id; Palmerston North, £740 12s od; Thames, £344 19s 6d; Timaru. £619; Wanganui, £634 7s 3d; Wellington, £1,990 16s 9d; Westport, £sf 7s 6d; total, £17,181 4s lid. 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 sS'les exceeded those of the New Zealand Pictorial and Western Samoan . pictorial issues, the total posted being 83,361.