CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9] — Page 78

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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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