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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 -- Check out Worldwide Stamp New Issues at http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~jollian Please send replies to New Zealand instead of Zanzibar. Sorry, but the spam is just getting a little bit too much... |
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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 |
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