NEW PENNY STAMP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 6

NEW PENNY STAMP.

-DESIGN NOT YET ?|XED, ; , USE FROM OCTOBER !,•• 1 ~ti-^ '•;>•-'< ■'■'■'' ■ •■■•■■' >■-'■■ "■■.:■:■! ':POWm WITH LOWER LETTER EAmr _ . • :,isJs\ : iSZ TELEGRAPH.— ' UEPOBXBjI WELLINGTON, .'vln all probability .an : altogsthor, penny stamp will beissued on October^» ■when penny postage for .letters: is to' 4 ■ resumed. : No design has yet ••beealalll finitely decided upon, but the stamp ytfn | be printed with coloured - ink, :|fef tint agreed upon foi the penny siampfb»f the International Postal Congress. M i ; The fluctuation in postage charges' New -Zealand has been quarter of a century ago the charge fo» all ordinary letters "(not exceeding GogM-i weight) was 2d, but on January l'lffijii when Mr Joseph Ward was Postmaster' General, the charge was reduced \Vamwithin the British Empire, thus realising the dream of the iat*-RV Henmker Heaton. -. From that date ; » September 23, 1915, the letter '■»*£ charge remained the same, but Lite year the Government imposed id war'tav" making the postage l£d. In 1920 the G& eminent, owing to the prevailing deon!" sion, Raised the letter postage charms& 2d On February 1, last,; it was brLg back to lid. Now, owing to improS conditions, a brighter outlook, more b'# ness-like methods in the department a «i rigid economy, penny postage, absent § nearly eight years, is about to be resume?