ANTARCTIC MAIL
INTERESTING SOUVENIR ' THE SHACKLETON EXPEDITION The recent visit to Auckland of a United States postal official on his way to join the Bvrd expedition in Little America and to establish the world's most isolated post office has prompted an Auckland resident to bring to the Herald office a souvenir of a much earlier Antarctic postal service. It is a letter, signed by the late Sir Ernest Shackleton, and dated February 3, 1908. The letter reads as follows: —"At the request of Mr. Robertson, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, I am sending you a letter bearing tho stamp of this post office." The note is on paper stamped, "British Antarctic Expedition, 1907," while the cancellation of the stamp includes tho same wording. The letter bore an ordinary New Zealand penny stamp of the issue then current, surcharged in black type, "King Edward VII. Land."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21982, 13 December 1934, Page 14
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147ANTARCTIC MAIL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21982, 13 December 1934, Page 14
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