ROTARY CLUB

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 278, 19 July 1932, Page 2

ROTARY CLUB

- sir heaton rhodes spea1 to members on' stamp s issues. USUAL WEEKLY LU NCHEOli - The speaker at yesterday's J > ing' of the Rotorua Rotary Club ; Sir Heaton Rhodes, who gave a a ; interesting address upon the id j new issue of New Zealand stamja L Ifi opening his address, Sir Ea r said that the new issue intenj philatelists, who wished to seej . signs selected which would do ea , to the country. He considereJJ . in the past New Zealand had ii . to be proud of its stamp issue, 1 it had been the aim of the eil ;• who had made tbe seleetion ofl new issue to uphold this tradil Continuing, Sir Heaton said l . .for many reasons the periodicai r issue of stamps was necessarsfj The colours of the high anil value stamps tended to clash, J replacement was necessary in I printing plates. It was the cil in some countries, he said, tofi new stamps merely for revem™ ducing reasons, bnt plbilateHstsl erally took little interest in sv issued-for the purppse ,of the™ alone. 8 The first New Zealand stampl he said, issued in 1855, the platsfl ing made in London, and hB sidered. that this was a particfi striking issue. It was not nntilfl that the first stamps were priutfi New Zealand and he traced thB gress made from that year untfi last issue was produced. 8 Discussing the projectednewfi which he said would be on salefi the end of the present yeafi Heaton said that the experts® looked for designs which wouMfi attractive, and at the same ticfi pict the characteristics of thefi try. To this end, over 250 ilfi had been submitted, but 90 perfi had been • discarded as not sfi for the purpose. Althongh cfi criticisms had been levelled fi seleetion, be stated tbat it vasfi possible to select tbe best of tfi signs submitted, which generafi picted the life and the touffi tractions of the Dominion. fi Sir Heaton contended tWfi( Zealand had not been alone fi past in regard to poor stamp fi' and quoted the case of a siafi sned in Spain which had beenfi drawn under pressure of tbefi He then traversed the ployed in the printing of stanijfi said that he considered that ftfi thod to be employed with ®?fi issue would take the public eIfir good deal of work had stillfi done before the stamps coifi issued, for it took an expert enfi approximately 15 weeks to etfir plates of the Zing's head. fii In conclusion Sir Heaton rejjfi-:', that some people considered t^fia; latelist's hobby a foolish onej^Bos pointed ont that much ^^fi1' learnt from the study of s^^fi05 reeommended his audience Bs courage their children to "fier such a hobby and in this much of the natural afld features of their country. fir|h Rotarian H. Bertraxn, 011 fi I of the club, thanked Sir Hecfind his interesting address. BCfiN ered that the gentlemen JfiC with Sir Heaton in the. selc'^fiig the new issue should be^fiioi lated on the selections made' fi C; fi ii fi