ANZAG STAMPS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13312, 20 July 1936, Page 2

ANZAG STAMPS.

NATIONAL RESULTS OF CAMPAIGN. £8,500 FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS. The Anzac commerative stamp is- 1 sue made by the Post Office at the request of the Now Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association between April 27th and June 20th has been highly satisfactory, the gross sales for the eight weeks totalling just over £17,000. This total is subject to adj’ustment, but 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 f>enny 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 deal twith, 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 IDomini<Qfi are as follows : £ s d General Post Office ... 1,853 4 8 Auckland 2,721 18 3 Blenheim 190 10 10 Christchurch 1,785 13 10 Dunedin 2,693 2 5 Gisborne 458 16 10 Grey mouth 116 0 11 Hamilton 645 12 8 Invercargill 427 4 7 Napier 823 10 5 Nelson 320 14 4 New Plvmouth 510 17 5 Oamaru 245 5 1 Palmerston North 740 12 5 Thames 344 19 6 Timaru 619 0 0 Wanganui 634 7 3 Wellington 1,990 16 9 Westport 58 7 9 Total 17,181 4 11 One feature of the campaign was the issue of first-day covers, the Post Office arranging for a free distribution of envelopes. The firstcover sales exceeded those of the New Zealand Pictorial and Western Samoan Pictorial issues, the total posted being 83,361.