PHILATELIC SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1932, Page 5

PHILATELIC SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING

The forty-fourth annual meeting' of the .Philatelic Society of New Zealand was held last night, Sir E. Heaton Khodes, M.L.C., presiding over a good attendance of members. ; ••

The election, of .officers resulted as follows:—Patron, His Excellency the Gover-nor-General, Lord Bledisloe; president. Sir ?• + He»t. on Bhpffef,: M.L.C.; vice-presi-dents. Sir H. Lindo Ferguson (Dunedin). gr- H. M. Prims (Auckland), Dr. F. A. Bett (ISielson), Mr. W. Ferguson (WeUington), and Mr. J. Currie (Wanganui); hon.. treasurer, Mr. F. H. Jackson; exchange superintendent, Mr. S. E Whitehead^ committee, Messrs. M. J. Spierline E' Mohol, H T. M., Fathers, C. JMyberg. The election of a secretary was Mt_m the hacds of the committee, Mr. f>- Jackson haying stated that at present he was too1 busy to continue the work., . -: .

A.committee was set up to-take-prelimirw ary steps wxth, respect to the compilationa "^J^o3^ of.New Zealand stamps. The committee consists of/ Messrs. M J Spierlmg, H. T. M. Fathers, and B. J C t,QlJms, and has power to add to its num-

Mr. -Ei G. Pilcher and Mr. L. A. Sanderson received tho felicitations of the meeting for having been keen supporters of A he, ssociety,ocietv- «»ce its foundation , iiV ir COf lUiif the b«siness meeting. Sir Heaton Rhodes exhibited his famous collection- of /New Zealand stamps • P g.re.at Merest being taken by those present m the unrivalled display of early