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Rod, I do not know any website that covers postal rates of the British Pacific. Most of this information is available in specialized handbooks, many published by the Pacific Islands Study Circle.

http://www.pisc.org.uk/pisc-publications.html

There is a great Solomon Islands website but it does not cover rates too much but does show some nice covers, including the UPU issue.

http://www.ro-klinger.de/tulagi/

I do have most of the Gilbert & Ellice / Tuvalu Handbooks and they cover postal rates. One day I should put those rates on my website.

Plateflaw's cover is philatelic, so the 1 /- probably over-pays the registration and postal rate. Still a very nice cover!

Thank you very much.
It has only been in the last two years or so,
(probably influenced by Ron and Eunice)
that I have been interested in postage rates,
it seems so important now, but information
(on any country) regarding rates is very hard to come by.

If you get up some pages on rates on your web sites,
and broadcast to that effect, I reckon your visits will jump
accordingdly, if not, ten fold.

I am working on those rates Rod Yes, I am interested too, and when I buy Gilbert & Ellice covers, I try to find covers that pay a true rate.

I started a thread with some Australian States cut squares I just acquired, and I thought I'd add one here, in case a topic title of "cut squares" didn't catch the eye...

Who was Mr. Frank Stamp anyway?

The PMG, of course!

Yes, yes: I just looked him up in the Melbourne phone book. He's still there. He lives at 4 Watkins Crescent, Mr Evelyn. A bit out of the way, and a long drive to work. But maybe they pay him less because he gets to have a rubber stamp with his name on it, so Mt Evelyn's the best he can manage on his salary.

I think Frank had a son, Terrence Stamp

Collin give me some time,
I have chapter and verse on those somewhere,
I'll have to go searching through my literature.

Thanks to Plateflaw's quote on Collas,
I have solved a query I have had for 8 years,
I have a FPO #71 cover, addressed to Pilot Officer
F A Collas, and I could never find any link to him
in records.
I was failrly sure it was Phil Collas, and thought his
secretary had spelt his name incorrectly.
I have just located another Collas cover to F Collas,
and it was his wife. So that query is finally solved.
Now I wonder if his wife was a pilot.

Good heavens, Rodney. Women pilots?

I remember in 1970 the male tram drivers in my depot being asked to vote on whether they'd train women to drive trams. One solitary driver voted Yes.

That one bloke was you, right ?

I am a sailor, what do I know?

The rank title does not imply that an officer in the rank of Pilot Officer is a pilot. Some Pilot Officers are aircrew, whilst many are ground branch officers. A ground branch Pilot Officer rarely may have command of a flight.

No, it wasn't me Rod. I didn't have a vote because I was a mere conductor. I had mixed feelings about women drivers. Some of the dragons who would have become drivers weren't the sort of persons I'd care to share 10 minutes with in the middle of the night at East Coburg tram terminus.

But on a more sober note, I suspect that, in Occupation times, women would have been nurses and not much else.

Yes, of course you're right,
I don't know what I was thinking,
not a fighter pilot of course, but a pilot just the same,
but that's just modern me, mere male. :)
You know, of course, women are going to take over the world :)
(we didn't do such a good job at it)

So the Constant Companion keeps telling me.