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the use
- qurated, but I cannot regard
postage stamps and the cancellation of them by writing or by using a chop "irregularity" when that has been voque for years post. The
the
exptem
law has not provided other stamps or other methods of cancellation though it might
It is, however,
: do
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with advantage .
clear that some few stamps of ourall denominations have been improperly removed from some of the papers in old -suits / in the Registry) principally
Court cases, finished years ago.
Vonary
in Jun:
sto the stamps of higher denonciations
the
Jane
papers
it secuw to me
have not been removed.
that the
doer mue to
wrong
have been soure ardent stamp collector
now out of
• tempted by rare specimens - print, which in this climate are cavily removed. This is no doubt most impro-
fer,
but
why
were not
such old papers - put away in locked receptacles I do not
Kis
for
the
future. I have no knowledge
how or when this irregularity
committed nor is it.
casy to fix upon
the deviiquant but I have no reason to
the cancellation was peuroved suppose
and the stamps (such as 2 or 3 cento) uved again.
These are all the remachs I
can evefully make and Mr Kyoke will at all events be performing useful work if he continues to point out defect in the Registry
and propose remedies for
than.
9th May, 1896.
SP. W. Meigh Goodman, Aching Chief Justice.
know. I have
auggested
the propriety of
Fris
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