JUBILEE TASMAN FLIGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 5

JUBILEE TASMAN FLIGHT

A NEW SET OF STAMPS. (, Per Press Association. ) WELLINGTON, April 29. j A new set of New Zealand air mail lamps will be used for the first time in • »nnection with the King's Silver Jubilee transtasmau flight by the Southern Cross, piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. There are three values, namely Id, 3d, ami 6d, and the same design issued throughout lhe series, drawn by Mr. J. Berry, of Wellington, from suggestions made by the Post and Telegraph Department. It depicts an interesting blending of ancient and modern. The main scene is shown by the let- ' tering on the stamp as “a New' Zealand air mail terminal.’ A large aero j plane is about to land, and there is a i smaller one outside a hangar near a I motor-car. In the distance is a snow I capped mountain and a forest on the 1 left. Standing under a cabbage palm I a Maori in full war dress is watching ' this modern innovation. The stamps are reproduced by the in- | taglio line engraving process from j [dates prepared by the Commonwealth • Government stamp printer. The engraving is particularly fine and the use uf a magnifying glass will reveal addi- j tional details. The printing is being lone by the New Zealand Government Printer, and the colour of the penny | denomination is the carmine of the six i penny value of the King George issue. , The threepenny air mail stamp is in lhe purple used for the fourpenny King George, and in the sixpenny is reproduced in the blue of the fivepenny King Gorge. To enable Australians to secure souvenir letters of the double flight, -upplies of the New Zealand air mail -tamps are being sent to Sydney and Melbourne this week. The air mail postage to Australia ’s 7d for half an wince.