STAMP NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 7

STAMP NOTES

India, which did not issue any special stamps at the time of the Coronation of George VI will issue special stamps for the Durbar expected to be held at Delhi should the King-Emperor go there. India has already issued George VI stamps similar to the George V. stamps, and will shortly issue a commemroative set featuring the growth of postal transportation in India.

India has three distinct types of postal service. First, there is the postage of the country as a whole, “India Postage,” featuring the British rulers. This frank is valid in India and for transmission throughout the world. Tlie second type is an overprinted Indian current stamp for use in certain States, called convention States. The stamps are valid within the State and throughout India, but are not to be used on mail going outside India. The convention States are Chamba, Faridkot, Gwalior, Jhind, Nnbha and Patiala. The third class of postage is that issued by the native feudatory States. These States are allowed to issue their own stamps for use only within their own boundaries. Tlie stamps are not valid for postage outside the State. Since India started issuing stamps there have been .33 States . issuing stamps. To-day the number is only 12. Til] recent years' stamps of the feudatory States were indecipherable for the average stamp collector, being entirely in the native language. In recent years the native States have gone in for pictorials with English as well as native wording and values. India is the country which uses joies coinage. These are not the edible pies, but a small coin, comparable to a cent, though in value not more than a mill, a tenth of a cent. Twelve pies are the equal of one anna, and 16 annas make one rupee. Stamps are issued from three pies to 25 rupees in value.

Guatemala is having a miniature sheet prepared in Holland for release

about January 1, featuring George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan-American Building at Washington and a map of the Americas. The stamp commemorates the 150th anniversary of the United States Constitution . . . Rumania has issued a new aviation fund stamp , . . Czechoslovakia has issued a two-value mourning set for the late President Masarky ... The postponed Dominion Republic’s Pan-American flight stamps were issued on October 12 at Trujillo City. . . A shortage of stamps of certain values in Bolivia has resulted in the appearance of new overprinted values of regular postage and air stamps of several issues. . . Nicaragua placed a miniature sheet on sale in October, commemorating the discovery of America by Columbus. . . Latvia. issued a commemorative set for the 60th birthday of President Dr. K. Ulmanis . . . The United States Alaska stamp, issued on November 12, shows Mount McKinley in the background with a farmer ploughing and .a farm settlement in the foreground. . . . The United States recently had 1122 artists submit designs for a new series of Presidential stamps, the set having long been planned, and is now slated for printing probably early in 1938.

In a sermon at Kyogle, N.S.W., Rev. Hugh Paton described Canberra as a pagan city, where people openly flouted all that* wat good by Sabbatn desecration.

A fire at the Public Library in Brisbane caused damage estimated at thousands of pounds. Ma.ny valuableand irreplaceable books and records were destroyed.

A chapel to be run by children has S been opened at the Countess of Hunts- ingdon’s Church in Brighton, Eng- ■> land.

A fight between four Irons and lionesses in the Nagoya Zoo, Japan, resulted in the death of a lioness.