POSTMASTER-GENERAL PMG 13/75

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STAMPS TO SHOW SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT

Four new definitive postage stamps will be issued on

14th May, 1975=

The designs will relate to developments in four different

fields of science important to Australia and in which Australian

scientists have made valuable contributions.

The stamp subjects will be Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry,

Radio Astronomy, Immunology and Oceanography. In addition

to symbolic motifs,  each stamp design carried an explanatory

caption of the subject.

Announcing this today, the Postmaster-General,Ã¢ÂÂ  Senator. Reg

Bishop, said that the stamp denominations of 11c, 24c,  33c,

and 48c coincide with the rates for non-standard postal

articles.

The Scientific Development stamp series was designed by

Weatherhead and Stitt of Melbourne, who also designed the

First Day cover to be sold by the Australian Post Office.

CANBERRA, 22.4.1975

