JEWELS FOR THE CORONATION

Southland Times, Issue 22992, 11 September 1936, Page 7

JEWELS FOR THE CORONATION

BIRMINGHAM FIRMS BUSY NEW COLONIAL STAMPS TO BE ISSUED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) London, September 10. Birmingham jewellery manufacturers are experiencing the busiest period in their history owing to the demand for coronets, tiaras and other Coronation regalia. Craftsmen are turning out thousands of souvenirs —powder-boxes, cigarette-boxes, medals, tie-pins, brooches and cuff-links. Flags are also booming. One Birmingham firm is turning out 1,000,000 flags a month, and aims at putting out 20,000,000 by next May. A British Official Wireless message states that arrangements are being made for the new issues at or about the date of the Coronation of colonial stamps bearing the King’s effigy. The new issues will be confined at first to a few denominations for each territory, and will be based on a common design. The stamps will form part of new permanent issues and will not be special Coronation issues; no such special Coronation issues for the colonies are at present in contemplation. The stamps will be of standard size. The design comprises a three-quarter profile vignette of the King’s head in a circle, placed towards the top lefthand corner of the stamp, with the Imperial Crown in the top right-hand corner; the name of the territory is shown beneath the vignette, the duty tablet is shown at the bottom righthand corner, and the denomination appears in words at the base of the stamp. These arrangements will apply, to Aden, the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Ceylon, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Jamaica and the Dependencies of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Territory, the Leeward Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, St. Helena, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland Protectorate, the Straits Settlements, Trinidad and the Windward Islands. The stamps will be printed by the recess process, except in the case of Gold Coast, which will continue to use the photogravure process, and except possibly in the case of Aden. New Zealand’s Part LOW FARES SUGGESTED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, September 10. An announcement that the whole question of the celebrations and other matters connected with the Coronation of King Edward were receiving the consideration of the Government was made by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) when replying in the House of Representatives to-day to an urgent question by Mr E. L. Cullen (Lab., Hawke’s Bay). The Prime Minister said that it was hoped to make a public statement on the matter at an early date. Mr Cullen asked whether it was the intention of the Government to send to England a contingent representing all units of the New Zealand Forces that served overseas in the Great War to participate in the Coronation celebrations. If that were intended, he asked that the Government consider granting a subsidy towards the return fare to Great Britain of other members who had served in the overseas forces so that they, too, might have an opportunity of taking part in the celebrations. Mr Cullen also inquired whether the Government would negotiate with the shipping companies with a view to obtaining a cheaper return fare to England in order that a greater number of New Zealand people might be able to attend the Coronation.