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rei \sto the infinite weariness of those f that who take no interest in philately; he veai is never happy unless he is showing ina*them to others. Now we take it tthat the average person , caring to :amandforrformatlolienothing about the ordinary stamp, will yet be glad to come upon this one, for in its way it is decidedly maf unique it will be to such a person, pertnot merely a stamp, but a picture of j °ne Jamaica, and thus it will form an advertisement of Jamaica. It will be One of the souvenirs which visit trsto this island will take or send to ! can1 41ng their friends, and the price of it will he j,iaCe it above the suspicion of being ( , d‘ he merely a cheap memento. j nex•o- The nlt;*w stamp was. we understand. • lastbe designed by His Excellency some \'ey Time ago. and in this connection we nd cannot help making i n observation ■ jjj ‘1- which erms to ns not entirely -s tot foreign to subjects which Jamaica. , woiha ; blt; i'ii discussing much of late ^We do not know if the Governor is Pnc. de himseif a philatelist, though prob-a ably lie is This is not the first stamp lie has designed, and that fact. * in loads us to believe that he is himself something of a philatelist. Now nt the word philatelist is composed of r *wo Greek words, the first of which of means 'loving.'* the second, “free ii- uf tax We therefore find that id the term Tax occurs in connection ^nit , mi ids Excellency even here, butho • free of fax in this respect means or .eai.-. free of further tax ’ We jIn * St ck. rju 1 (J lik* to take the issue of this *'a n now stamp a - a sort of prophecy that n*lt; 1. 1 H Ui bp (n *ItfiltllnH k ♦‘s |SSf itinof further taxes- in ; f*tu(IS*Its app«arinci f red *
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Kingston Daily Gleaner
Kingston, Kingston, JM
Wed, Apr 20, 1921
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