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EDINBURGH PHILATELIC SOCIETY (93Rd Season) EDINBURGH PHILATELIC SOCIETY (93rd Season) Newsletter No.130 Dec 2018 Secretary’s Letter It does not seem like 3 months since I wrote a note for the Summer addition and now, we have the winter coats out. Since my last note, health a bit better. It has been a busy period with the first of my Grandchildren, only Granddaughter, getting married. I still have a single night 12th Feb 19 to completed the syllabus. I put it as a member’s night and if we don’t get a better suggestion I will ask Bill Torrance to do a half evening on his Machin’s and I will bring in some GB Prestige Booklets for the other half. YOUR CHOICE. We are still waiting for someone to take over the job of Minute Secretary as Richard Squires wishes to have a break as he has been doing for a dozen or more years. Likewise, The Secretary would like to move on. Replace me and I will take over from Richard. I had a couple of nice finds for my collections at Scotex in October. And further good luck at Bass Rock Fairs in Kinross in November. A couple of comments about Gibbons monthly, fortunately it came out before the Kinross fair and I was able to add to part of my aviation display. On the front cover were a couple of cover about the Berlin Airlift. I already had some material and was able to enhance it. A piece of History which most of us should remember, I certainly did. However, one can’t always believe everything in the magazines. I read the bit on the latest GB new issues ie 70th Birthday of HRH Prince Charles in GSM. Which is correct GSM or Royal mail. In the technical table there are three differences:- Print process GSM Lithography ~ RM Gravure, Perforations GSM 14.5 * 14 ~ RM 14.5 * 15, Gum GSM PVA ~ RM Self-adhesive. My copy from Royal Mail is definitely self-adhesive, the perfs and print type I have not looked into deeply, but think it’s Gravure. Can’t find my perf gauge with edge markings. Bob Catto Notices EPS and Scottish Merger: Following an approach by and some discussions with the Scottish Philatelic Society, a motion to work towards a merger with the Scottish was passed by the Edinburgh society. Refer to the recent meeting notes for more information (13 Nov - Special General Meeting) President and Secretary’s Health: Both Bob Catto and Bill Torrance are both still recovering their health. Please continue to help out and volunteer wherever possible please. ESG Edinburgh Stamp Group meet on the last Friday of most months (3rd Fri in July with no meeting Aug or Dec) in the Methodist Church hall in Nicolson Square, it is informal, not a club. There is a small fee to cover rent and free tea/coffee and biscuits if you attend. All welcome. Editor: Steve Cowles, email: [email protected] Web page: https://edinphil.wordpress.com/ Page 1 of 8 Subscriptions: Any unpaid subscriptions of £12.00 are due before 31st December 2018. Newsletter: I am always looking for material for your newsletter. I am happy to take material on paper or electronic form for inclusion in future issues. The contact email address is in the footer of page 2 onwards. My thanks to Robin Sherman and John Law for their recent contributions. Minute Secretary: Please note the society is still looking for a ‘Minute Secretary’ for our meetings. Secretary: As Bob mentions earlier, he would welcome someone to take on the role of Secretary. Steve Cowles Life on a lonely Pacific Island in the 1950s an article from Robin Sherman Many of us collect material originating from remote islands in the Pacific and whilst there are a number of autobiographies written by people who have lived in such places in the early years of philately, not everyone has read one and may not realize how lonely some expatriates were or how difficult were the primitive conditions. Communication with home and the outside world generally, relied on the odd passing ship, which exacerbated the feeling of being totally cut off. In some cases, there was a small local expatriate community within which one could find friendship and whilst life could be stressful, it might not always be considered too lonely. However, in quite a few islands, the local plantation manager or other official might be the only expatriates there and after two or three years, it was common for them to want to get back to “civilization” again. This did not necessarily mean that they returned to their home country: just another island with a more substantial expatriate population, such as in Fiji or Samoa. A few years ago, I purchased a British Solomon Islands cover, commercially used from Vanikoro, a small island in the remote Santa Cruz Group belonging to the Solomon Islands. I bought it because the stamps had been cancelled in February 1959 by a circular undated H.M. Customs cachet, there being no longer a post office on that island. It also bore a straight-line VANIKORO cachet and a Honiara transit postmark dated 3 APR 1959. However, on receiving the item, I was even more delighted to find that it contained a hugely interesting and humorous (despite being somewhat sarcastic and a little racist, by today’s standards) three-page letter giving a real flavour as to what life must have been like for a lonely expatriate on one of those islands, all those years ago. The cover: Unfortunately, the letter to Miss S.M. Young, a librarian in Worthing, has faded so I quote its contents below and I hope you enjoy what L.W. Filewood of the Kauri Timber Company Limited had to say. (What a wonderful surname, don’t you think, for a man in his position.) Editor: Steve Cowles, email: [email protected] Web page: https://edinphil.wordpress.com/ Page 2 of 8 Letterhead and Mr. Filewood’s account of life on Vanikoro: “Dear Miss Librarian, Yours of 22nd. October is acknowledged and we trust that the information contained herein will enable you to include us in your “Lonely Isles” collection. Incidentally, you can give the lonely part of it both barrels. 1….. Your letter was received by the motor vessel “Citos” which arrived here February 16th. 2….. We receive regular mail by ships of this line, the Australia West Pacific Line, 4 or possibly 5 times per year. Occasionally, a small government vessel or a trader will pass this way bringing mail from Honiara, the capital of the B.S.I., and we would thus get an odd addition to both the sending and receiving of mail. 3….. White population is, at the moment 9 and alas, all are male and all are employees of my company, engaged in the extraction of Kauri pine logs for shipment to Brisbane and Melbourne, which villages, should they be known to you, are in Australia. 4….. The actual village of Peou, which should really be spelt with a more odorous spelling, is the Native village about a quarter of a mile from Company headquarters, but for reasons of convenience and usage, the latter has now become Peou. Headquarters is graced, or maybe that is not the correct word, by myself and a book keeper, the rest of the Company slaves being housed in them thar hills, about 15 miles away, five by water and 10 by road, up where the tall timbers are. They occasionally come down to headquarters on weekends for some liquid relaxation, spending their leisure, or out of work time in the bush, in a similar manner, or possibly, since they are all very cultured loggers, truck drivers, tractor drivers, bushmen and the like, in bird watching, nature study and in reminiscing of the delights of civilization, such as they are. 5…… Population (indigenous) is about 150 of the usual shiftless Melanesian type, at present being inculcated into the realms of self-government and the benefits deriving therefrom, by a benevolent Government, in a similar manner to which their African and Indian brothers have been taught. They feast upon yams, taro, pana, manioch, bananas, paw paws, melons, pineapples, mangoes, fish, wild pig etc. They now also possess a knowledge of and a liking for beer, spirits, corned beef, tinned fruit, tinned fish, shirts, trousers, cigarettes, etc., and are rapidly approaching the time when they can take over the B.S.I., safe in the knowledge that they are competent to conduct their own affairs. 6…… The company employs about 150 other Natives, recruited from outlying islands in the Santa Cruz and Reef Islands Groups, about 100 and 150 miles away, respectively, recruiting and repatriation being carried out either by myself or the Foreman in a 35 foot open launch. Very pleasant with 25 Natives of a very sweet smelling variety, in a good strong blow or a heavy sea, perhaps 50 miles from land. 7……. The island itself is about 15 miles long by about 8 miles wide and lies 11 degrees 40 minutes South latitude and 166 degrees 57 minutes East longitude, at least that is what the map says. It is dominated by a peak, Mount Kopogo, over 3000 feet high, so it is not difficult to imagine the terrain which is very rough and mountainous. Jungle growth is very thick up to about 1000 feet where rain forests are more Editor: Steve Cowles, email: [email protected] Web page: https://edinphil.wordpress.com/ Page 3 of 8 open for another 1000 feet whilst the last 1000 is mostly scrub and fern.
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