SAMOAN POSTAGE STAMPS
Samoa will shortly have its own national postage stamps. A very tasteful design for the new stamps, has been made in London to the order of the New Zealand Government, and was shown yesterday to a representative of The Dominion by the Hon.-E. P. Lee, Minister of External Affairs. The, stamp depicts a Samoan fale -(or where as we would call it in Now Zealand) with two coconut palms in the background and a representation of the British Royal Standard in tho foreground of tho fate. Mr. Lee stated he understood that the Samoan people had not had their own postage stamps for about .thirty years. During the time Germanv was in occupation of Samoa, tho stamps used were the German national stamps with the word Samoa overprinted across the stamps. Since Samoa . has been , under the Now Zealand Government, New Zealand stamps have been used in the sumo way. The new issue of stamps, .teach denomination of which will have its particular colour, will probably be in circulation towards the end- of- tho present year.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 2
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179SAMOAN POSTAGE STAMPS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 2
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