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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 601, 13 December 1871, Page 2

To the Editor of the Evening Stab., Sib,—ln last evening's issue you refer to the gutta-percha stamp, an American invention, which it is stated are sold'at one fourth the price of the usual brass stamp. Being rather interested in this peculiar line of business I beg to state that in my. recent sojourn in America \L made particular enquiries about this very composition, and the result was that tins invention has not proved a success in «» country of its birth. The substance itseit being soft and pliable, the ink used adheres far more readily to it than on a metw stamp, and necessitates a more frequent cleaning. What heat will do to guttapercha, and whether it will stand the same amount of wear and tear every body » able to iudge. But finally, about the cose —india-rubber stamps cost from*!^ upwards, sent over from Melbourne ana Sydney, while brass stamps made in Auckland equal in finish and design only eon 30s. Why not, therefore, encourage " native industry" when the M*i^e ""jfcJgf is better, and in the long run *Cj ml than the imported. p I am, &0., -J» I. Alexander, . Jeweller and EngraverAuckland, December 13,1871.