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MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1977
NEW STAMPS TO BE ISSUED THIS YEAR
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THREE DEFINITIVE STAMPS WITH DENOMINATIONS OF 60-CENT, 70-CENT AND 80-CENT AND TWO SETS OF COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS ONE ON THE THEME OF TOURISM AND THE OTHER +HONG KONG ORCHIDS+ WILL BE ISSUED BY THE POST OFFICE THIS YEAR.
THIS WAS DISCLOSED TODAY BY THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR. KYLE BAMFORD, WHEN HE OPENED THE TSIM SHA TSUI DISTRICT KAIFONG STAMP ́EXHIBITION MARKING THE 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TSIM SHA TSUI PHILATELIC CENTRE.
MR. BAMFORD SAID THE THREE DEFINITIVE STAMPS WOULD BE ISSUED ON MAY 4, WHEN THE EXISTING 15-CENT, 25-CENT AND 65-CENT DENOMINATIONS WOULD BE WITHDRAWN.
+THESE CHANGES HAVE COME ABOUT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO LONGER FIVE-CENT STEPS IN OUR PASTAGE RATE STRUCTURE,+ HE EXPLAINED,
AS FOR THE COMMEMORATIVE ISSUES, MR. BAMFORD SAID THE FIRST SET FOCUSSING ON TOURISM WOULD BE PUT ON SALE
ON JUNE 30,
THIS SERIES, HE CONTINUED, CONSISTED OF FOUR STAMPS WHICH WERE DESIGNED BY MR. TAO HO, A DESIGN ARCHITECT IN HONG KONG.
MR. HO HAD ALSO DESIGNED SEVERAL OF THE POST OFFICE'S COMMEMORATIVE ISSUES, INCLUDING THAT OF THE GENERAL POST OFFICE RELEASED LAST AUGUST.
ON THONG KONG
MR. BAMFORD SAID THE SECOND SERIES ORCHIDS+ WOULD PROBABLY BE PUT ON SALE IN OCTOBER.
+THERE WILL BE THREE STAMPS IN THIS ISSUE DEPICTING ORCHIDS THAT GROW WILD IN HONG KONG, HE NOTED.
THE BLOOMS SHOWN ON THE STAMPS WERE THOSE OF THE SUSAN, LADY'S SLIPPER AND BUTTERCUP ORCHIDS, HE ADDED.
THE STAMPS HAVE BEEN DESIGNED BY MRS. BERYL WALDEN, WIFE OF THE DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS, MR. JOHN WALDEN.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL TOLD THE GATHERING THAT THE POST OFFICE +AGAIN BROKE WITH TRADITION+ LAST MONTH WHEN IT ISSUED A NEW AEROGRAMME WITH A SPECIAL FLYING DRAGON STAMP IMPRESSION INSTEAD OF THE CUSTOMARY REPRODUCTION OF A DEFINITIVE POSTAGE STAMP.
/+THE FLYING