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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1919, Page 3

According to a London correspondent the three stamps which New Zealand is issuing to commemorate the vVtory of the Allies have been executed by Do La Rue and Co. and a supply will almost immediately be available in New Zealand. The halfpenpy is a recumbent figure of a lion, with the sums r:.ys in the hackgiound. The penny, which is red, has a representation of Brittania and a lion. The lid, something similar to tho present l jd, has the tattooed head of a Maori on the right-hand side, and some New Zealand genre on the left-hand side. All the stamps hear the word “Victory” and the dates 1914 and 1915. They are very handsome designs, and ,of course, very well execu T ted.

Mr E. Phillips Turner lias been appointed secretary of the recently created Forestry Department. Mr Turner who is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, joined the Survey Repayment twenty-five years ago. and was engaged in various kinds of surveys till 1908 when lie was appointed Inspector of Scenery Reserves for the Dominion, in which position 1 e gained an intimate knowledge of our indigenous ' forests. He was secretary of the Royal j Commission on Forestry in 1913, and I was appointed chief officer of the I' orestry branch of the Lands Department |in 1918,