NEW POSTAGE STAMP.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Saturday. The Post and Telegraph Department have received from America plates for the new lid stamp, to be issued next month. The stamp, which was designed by Mr. J. M. Nairn, of this city, is emblematic of the part taken by New Zealand in the war. The design is liin long and seven-eighths of an inch deep. At the top are the words, "New Zealand, and below "postage and revenue," the denomination being in the left-hand upper corner. In the foreground, on either side, is a trooper and horse. In the middle distance a company of mounted infantry is advancing from their camp, the background being ranges of snowclad mountains. The New Zealand flag is draped over the scene in the setting of which a tree-fern and other foliage is prominent. In the left-hand lower corner a scroll bears the words "The Empire's call." The colour is not yet decided- on.. ' -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11539, 26 November 1900, Page 5
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