THE NEW POSTAL NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5279, 8 June 1895, Page 6

THE NEW POSTAL NOTES.

The New Zealand Times says that the design of tho new £5 postal notes which are to be issued on June 17, if not exactly Btriking or a thing of beauty, is at any rate characteristic. Upon a pale yellow ground on the face of the note there is a view of Mount Egmont and the country sloping from it to the sea, and at the side 3 on a blue ground benoath this sketch there are vignettes filled in with native birds, nikau palms and tree ferns. Tho lettering is also upon a blue ground, above the engraving being printed the words, "New Zealand Postal Note," and in smaller letters, "To the Postmaster in charge at any money order office within the Colony of New Zealand pay on demand the sum of Five Pounds Sterling. Dated at Wellington, Neif Zealand ." The denomination of the note iB boldly printed in white letters on a blue ground, and is also water-marked after the usual fashion of bank notes. In the lower lefthand corner there is a circular space for the stamp of the paying office, and there is a corresponding space in the lower right-hand corner for tho stamp of the issuing office. On the back of the note its value is displayed in the centre of an ornamental figure of conventional design."