STAMP NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 7

STAMP NOTES

Keen interest is displayed by Canadians in the eastern Arctic mail, when collectors prepare their covers for mailing during July on Canada’s annual patrol ship Nascopie to the Arctic. It spends nearly three months in the Arctic regions. The ship carries officials, scientists, replacement police, doctors, nuns, and fur traders for the outposts on the Arctic islands and along the Hudson Straits. It carries the only mail to reach those settlements, and in the last few years has also carried a growing volume of philatelic mail for collectors who want covers stamped at the most northern Post Office in the British Empire, and the most northern on the North American continent. The usual system is to address as many envelopes as you desire either to yourself or to friends, marking each envelope with the Arctic Post Office where you wish it to bo cancelled. The ship stops at Port Burwell on the Hudson Straits; at Lake Harbour, Pangnirtung and Pond’s Inlet on Baffin Island; at Dundas Harbour, Devon Island; at Craig Harbour, Ellesmere Island, within 1000 miles of the North Pole; also in the Hudson Bay at Port Harrison, Churchill and Chesterfield Inlet. Early in October the mail from the far north will be delivered, when the Nascopie returns, with each envelope stamped and dated at some eastern Arctic outpost. First flight covers for the new air mail route in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, which started on July 13, reached the district superintendent of postal service, Saskatoon, by July 10. There were six special cancellations, for covers marked on the new routes from Prince Albert to Fond du Lac, Prince Albert to Norite

Bay, and Prince Albert to Stoney Rapids. Covers from these points to Prince Albert W'ere so marked. Air mail postage was affixed to each cover, 6 cents for the first ounce, 5 cents for each additional ounce for Canada, United States, Newfoundland, United Kingdom delivery. The small principality of Monaco has issued five pictorials, the two high values featuring Prince Louis. .. . Mozambique Company in Africa, a Portuguese concession, has issued another attractive animal and pictorial set of 19 values. .. . Czechoslovakia will soon issue a commemorative for the 1917 battle of Zborov.

. . . Germany’s Hitler miniature sheets are to be surcharged. . . . Iceland has featured King Christian on its silver jubilee stamps of his reign. . . . IndoChinese stamps have been surcharged for use in French postal reigions of China. .. . Girls in national costume will feature the miniature sheet to be issued by Yugoslavia for the Belgrade Philatelic Exhibition. .. . Russia lias joined the miniature sheet issuing countries with a sheet for the 'PanUnion Congress of Soviet Architects to be held in Moscow, the stamp featuring the imposing Palace of the Soviets. . . . Guatemala’s new air mail stamps for interior and exteripr use follow the small oblong pattern of last year with an aeroplane over a different view of the country on each stamp of the 22 issued. ... Salvador is preparing a new air. mail pictorial set. .. . The Isle of Man has asked permission to print a special pictorial issue, and if allowed by the British Post Office .other semi-autono-nioiix sections of the United Kingdom might follow suit.