HISTORY IN STAMPS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 3

HISTORY IN STAMPS

CHANGE SINCE 2d YELLOW Though issued only 24 years ago a 2d j yellow postage stamp on a letter re- . ceived at a Daily News office this week ; has been made something of an anachronism by events since those days. Ac- . tually it is not so long ago since all were | familiar with the 2d yellow, as it was only in 1935 that that type of stamp became obsolcte, but there have been many changes since its issue during the Great ( War In 1922 a set was issued in commemoralion of peace and victory. Many will remembcr the halfpenny green Victory stamps surcharged to 2d. Periodically every year since 1929 health stamps, of which one penny is postage and the other for charitablo purposes, have appeared. The next complete change, however, was the introduction of the pictorial issue of 1935, the 2d issue being an orange stamp. During the jubilee celebrations of King George V and Queen Mary m 1935, the pictorial issue was supplemented by ld, ld and 6d jubilee stamps. Then with the death of King George and the accession of King Edward VIII. New Zealand was preparing a special coronation ,commemoratiVe— England had already issued one — when his abdication made necessary the preparation of another special issue. April, 193G. saw a new type of stamp. This was the Anzac stamp, issued on the twenty-first anniversary of the landing of the Anzacs at Gallipoli. In 1937 the eoronation stamps, ld. 2;ld and 6d, of King George and Queen Elizabeth, weie in use, and on the close of this issue New Zealand went back to her pictorial issue, but not for long. Philatelists overseas were delighted to find yet anothei novelty to add to their New Zealand collections. The meeting of the Empire Chambers of Commerce at Wellington saw another change for a short period, and then after a brief lull in which the pictorial scries was again without competition, the centenary of the Dominion warranted a special commemorative issue.