Before conclu to mention that I personally i under a separate heading "Cancelled to order" stamps among the Gula. Furry" cents Nove many ¥% I say, forgery advisedly og they are not they pretend True the stamps are genuine, the postmark also ig sometimes genuine, but as stamps they are neither mint nor used and in my own opinion should never be bought except peraps as space fillers until the arrival of genuinely postally used copies, 1 would alco include in this paper mended stamps, perforated stamps with the holes filled up, retouched necimens with torn or thinned por-ons touched up with colour, and all such devices. whose name legion. A" mended stamp should only be bought as such.
One final word. T have been trying for the last two years to obtain contributions of forgeries for the Society's Forgery Collection, but 80 far T have accumulated only four specimens. There were others, but these were destroyed in the dizasous fire in the Into secretary's house. T should be glad to receive any forgeries members can spare towards. this collection which, if taken seriously, may be of great use to future ' members of the Society, THE strike of employees in the Yuh Hua Silk Filature still. con-'Yesterday morning only 130]
400 workers at the No. 2 filature in Chaoufoong Road reported for work, while the entire star of 400 at the jected by the strike.
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