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onininpu rroni uioif iKiamiM, tiesaid.New Pictorial IssuesOf West Indian StampsThe “London Time*” savs: —“Two striking addition* to the postage stamp* of the British West Indies have been latelv re-■ wreived from the colonies of Antigua and Jamaica. Both followthe modern trend toward pic-torialism and are handsomelv re-%produced by the line-engraved process of Waterlow and Sons,Limited.“The new Antiguan series commemorates the tercentenary of the colonisation of the island by Kng-lish settlers and includes four picturesque vignettes. The first shows a view of the old naval dockyard at English Harbour, now fallen into disuse, with a portrait of the sovereign inset in the upper right-hand portion of the design, and is used for the valuesid. green. Id. carmine, and lid.red-brown. A glimpse of the low-pitched eighteen-century Government House at St. John's, the official residence of the Governor of the Leeward Islands, in its sylvan setting, is the subject of the 2d. grey, 24d. dark blue, and 3d. orange stamps, while Nelson s last visit to Antigua during his pursuit of Yilleneuve and the French squadron in 1805, immediately before the battle of Trafalgar, isrecalled by an effective seascapedesign which adorns the denominations of 6d. purple. Is. olive-greeu, and 2s. 6d. lilac-rose. Allof the foregoing stamps hear in addition a medallion portrait of King George V. The tenth and highest value of the series, 5s. sepia and grey-black, has a vignette of the seventeenth-centuryship which brought Captain Edward Warner and the original colonists from St. Christopher in the year 1632, viewed through three ‘‘arches of the centuries,” inscribed with the dates 1732, 1832, 1932, a fourth date,“1 632.” being engraved below the central device.“From the Crown#Colony of Jamaica comes a new' 6d. postage and revenue stamp in place of that formerly current with the King’s head and completing the pictorial series inaugurated as far back as 1919, presenting a finely engraved view of Priestman’s River, Portland, in grey-black enclosed in a frame of reddish-purple embellished with a cluster of oranges. It takes the place of aoperative movement of Great Britain is threatened with revolt of the first magnitude among its m\ and a half million member* against the attempt by a political caucus to drag them into the arena of |iarty politics.The Co-operative Cnion includes four wholesale societies, nearly ahundred producing societies, anti more than 1,300 retail societies. Together they employ a quarter of a million workers, and control capital of £ 120,000.000.The co-operative movement has long attracted the attentions of the Socialist Party, w ho * have openly proclaimed that the “triplicate character of the Socialist movement” must embrace the Socialist Party (the political arm ). the trade unions (the industrial arm), and the co-operatives (the trading arm ».The body within the co-operative movement which is working to bring this about is the group of politicians who run the “Co-opera tive Party. Lnder the pretext of being a political body to expressin Parliament the needs of the movement, they have built up an organisaiion which is now corn pletly subservient to the demand** of the Socialist Party,It arranges the JOINT PARIJAMKNTARY candidatures with the executive ofthe Socialist Party and pools finances with them in the allotted con stituencies. It maintains the el os est liaison in constituency and narooI)flaandf;aooaI!VaS!Ottl: CjA!i4 ! nntiheeSTEVENS9 IDEA SCORED.!s ___ aLONDON. (By Mail » The lt;ill for a week of mourning to end nes-simlstic thought, made by Mr. 11. H. Stevens, Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, at a recent address In Hamilton, Ont., ha* call ed forth serious comment in tin Manchester Guardian.The Guardian pointed out tintin this country even archbishopshave some difficulty in getting ,ut one day set apart for a national mood of prayer and repentance. IfCanadians do. indeed, possess such remarkable capacity for sustained self reproach, it would seem a Util** dangerous to suggest indulging it on so large a scale, it continued.w 9“After^a week of breast-heating the country might get itself into such a nosedive of depression that it might never emerge, but descend.f,tJ1lt;11t111Cstamp vignette of the same denomination prepared some year-ago and illustrating the “Abolition of Slavery,” hut withheld from circulation on politicaltujten! r 1 tagrounds.»9‘ i
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Kingston Daily Gleaner
Kingston, Kingston, JM
Wed, Mar 30, 1932
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