100 years ago...

From the "100 years ago - from our archives" column in the Saturday,
5th July edition of the Otago Daily Times (of Dunedin, New Zealand):

"The Premier must be the recipient of some strange, if not amusing,
requests at times. In November last, he was written to by a local
schoolboy who asked that he should send him some stamps for his
collection. On Thursday last, the juvenile stamp fiend received a
very civil note from Mr Seddon, in which he explained that the
press of business prevented him replying sooner, and he regretted
that previous applicants had a lien on all his used stamps for some
time to come, but he hoped he would be more successful in some
other quarter. - ODT, 6.7.1903."

Seddon (Premier from 1893 to 1906) himself eventually appeared
on a stamp: a 10c stamp issued during 1979.

- Dave
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:53:07 +1200, "Dave Joll"
found these unused words floating about:

From the "100 years ago - from our archives" column in the Saturday,
5th July edition of the Otago Daily Times (of Dunedin, New Zealand):

"The Premier must be the recipient of some strange, if not amusing,
requests at times. In November last, he was written to by a local
schoolboy who asked that he should send him some stamps for his
collection. On Thursday last, the juvenile stamp fiend received a
very civil note from Mr Seddon, in which he explained that the
press of business prevented him replying sooner, and he regretted
that previous applicants had a lien on all his used stamps for some
time to come, but he hoped he would be more successful in some
other quarter. - ODT, 6.7.1903."

Seddon (Premier from 1893 to 1906) himself eventually appeared
on a stamp: a 10c stamp issued during 1979.

- Dave

Yes, those nasty little fiends ... PM's must put them in their place!
G