STATE ENVELOPES
The new Pakistan envelope ½ annas crescent facing right and star which came into force on New Year’s Day, January 1, 1948.

PHILATELIC BUREAU ESTABLISHED IN KARACHI GPO
January 6, 1948, Karachi: The postal authority have established a Philatelic Bureau at the GPO, owing to a heavy demand from philatelists from India and abroad.

PERIOD OF EXCHANGE OF INDIA SERVICE STAMPS
As some offices, says West Punjab press note, have not been able to exchange old stocks of India service stamps for those overprinted “Pakistan” from their respective treasuries within the three months ending January 1, it has now been decided to extend the date to February 15, 1948. All such Government offices, therefore, should not get stocks of the India Service stamps exchanged by this date.

AMRITSAR – DELHI DAILY SERVICE IN EITHER DIRECTION – INA
January 11, 1948: Amritsar – Delhi daily service in either direction – INA

31,395 VOTE FOR INDIA AND 39 FOR PAKISTAN – REFERENDUM RESULTS IN W. INDIA AND GUJARAT STATES
February 18, 1948, New Delhi: The states of Mangrol, Manavadar, Bantwa, Sardargarh and Babariavad have decided to accede to the Indian Dominion according to the result of referendum held in these states. Thirty one thousand three hundred and ninety five voted for accession to the Indian Dominion against 39 for Pakistan.
A state Ministry communiqué issued tonight said, Mr. C. B. Bagarkar, Judicial Commissioner of Western India and Gujrat states, at present Referendum Commissioner has announced the following results of the referendum in Mangrol, Manavadar, Bantwa, Sardargarh and Babariawad:
Mangrol – 11,833 – 8*
Manavadar – 8,436 – 11*
Bantwa (Bara) – 1 091 – 10*
Bantwa (Chota) – 1,402 – nil*
Sardargarh – 1,241 – 2*
Babariawad – 5,392 – 8*
*votes for Pakistan

JUNAGARH VOTES FOR ACCESSION TO INDIA
February 24, 1948, New Delhi: …..that Junagarh has voted in favour of accession to India in the recent referendum held in the state.
The following are the results of the referendum held in Junagarh state according to a Press Note:
190,779 votes in favour of accession to India and 91 in favour of accession to Pakistan.

NUNBER OF VOTES ON THE ELECTROL ROLLS
Junagarh – 20056
Mangrol – 12997
Manavadar – 8680
Bantwa (Bara) – 1427
Bantwa (Chota) – 1432
Sardargarh – 3393
Babariawad – 5880

JUNAGARH PLEBISCITE A FARCE
“Pak contention at Lake Success Debate”

OFFER OF SECOND PLEBCITE IN JUNAGARH
“India’s statement before Security Council”

REVISION OF PAKISTAN POSTAGE RATES
March 18, 1948, Karachi: The Pakistan Ministry of Communication, in a Press Note on the revision of rates of Postage and airmail fees states: From April, 1948, the following revised rates of postage for inland, postcards and packets will come into force (the same rates shall apply to postcards and packets addressed to India, Ceylon, Aden, Nepal and Portuguese India): POSTCARDS – for a single postcard, the rate will be nine pies; and for a reply postcard, one and a half annas. PACKETS (BOOK< PATTERN ND SAMPLE) – For the first five tolas or fraction thereof, the rate will be one anna. For every additional two and a half tolas, or a fraction thereof in excess of five tolas, half anna extra will be charged.
From the same date, the postage to be collected on delivery of business reply cards in territories served by the Pakistan Posts and Telegraphs Department will be nine pies for a single card.

AIRMAIL FEES
From April 1, 1948, the following revised rates of airmail fee shall be changed in addition to ordinary postage on airmail articles of the inland airmail and money orders (the same rates shall apply to airmail articles and money orders addressed to India).
For a POSTCARD – the airmail fee shall be nine pies in addition to ordinary postage. For any other article the letter mail, namely letters, registered newspapers and packets one and half annas per tola or fraction thereof will be charged in addition to ordinary postage. For MONEYORDER, in addition to money order commission, one and a half annas per money order will be charged irrespective of the amount.
A separate notification will be made in respect of revised postal rated for Burma, Kuwait and Persian Gulf.

PAKISTAN INSCRIBED NOTES FROM APRIL 1, 1948
March 20, 1948, Karachi: The Reserve Bank of India, it is understood, will issue, on April 1, 1948, new bank notes of the denomination of Rs. 100, Rs. 10, Rs. 5, Rs. 2 and Re. 1 inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu.
These notes are the same as at present in circulation in India and Pakistan, except that the words “Government of Pakistan” have been inscribed on them in English and Urdu.
It is stated that these Pakistan – inscribed notes will circulate along with other bank notes of the Reserve Bank of India and will be exchangeable at par by the Reserve Bank of India.
Issued by the same currency authority the Pakistan inscribed notes, it is pointed, will naturally have identical backing with other bank notes issued by the Reserve Bank of India.

PAKISTAN NOTES NOT TO BE LEGAL TENDER IN INDIA
March 21, 1948, Bombay: The Reserve Bank of India today announced here that new bank notes inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu to be issued in Pakistan “will not be legal tender in India and will not be accepted by the bank at its offices, branches or agencies in India”.
The existing latest patterns of Reserve Bank of India bank notes of the denomination of Rs. 2, Rs. 5. Rs. 10 and Rs. 100 inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu will be issued in Pakistan from April 1, 1948. The notes will be full legal tender in Pakistan.
Government of India currency notes or Reserve Bank notes without the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu inscribed on them will until September 30, 1948, be legal at any place in Pakistan in payment or on account of the amount expressed therein.

PERSIAN GULF POSTOFFICES TO BE UNDER BRITAIN
March 24, 1948, New Delhi: The administration of the Postage and Telegraph offices in the Persian Gulf will be handed over to the Majesty’s Government with effect from April 1, 1948 says a Press Note.
From that date postage stamps overprinted “Kuwait and Bahrain “ will be withdrawn from sale at the Indian Philatelic Bureau, Bombay.

INA PLANE CRASHES ON CORSICA – 19 KILLED IN SMASH
A Viking aircraft of the India National Airways crashed on the island of Corsica today after it struck the eastern snow covered slopes of Mount Cardo at a height of 6,000 feet, said an Agence France Presse report from Accio.
All aboard the aircraft – 15 passengers and crew were killed. Air disaster took place in Corsica on Saturday, March 27, 1948.
The aircraft it is learnt, left New Delhi on March 21, it had stayed at Rome and only left that city at 5:30 am today. – Reuter

PAKISTAN CURRENCY NOTES – FOUR DENOMINATIONS ISSUED
The Reserve Bank of India, (Pakistan) in a communiqué says: in accordance with section 5 (2) of part II of the Pakistan (Monetary System and Reserve Bank) Order, 1947, the Reserve Bank of India will, with effect from the April 1, 1948, issue in Pakistan the existing latest patterns of Reserve Bank of India bank notes of the denomination of Rs. 2, Rs. 5, Rs. 10 and Rs. 100 inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu.

“PAKISTAN” – INSCRIBED ONE – RUPEE NOTES BEING ISSUED
March 31, 1948, Karachi: The Governor General of Pakistan had made promulgated an Ordinance to provide for issue and putting into circulation of Government of Pakistan one rupee notes. A notification of the Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan in Today’s “Gazette of Pakistan” stated: The Central Government is pleased to notify issue of Government of Pakistan notes of the denominational value of one rupee through the Reserve Bank of India, which is common currency authority for India and Pakistan till 30th September, 1948.
“These notes will be identical with Government of India one rupee notes now in circulation in India and Pakistan except that they will have the words “Government of Pakistan” inscribed on them in English and Urdu”.

PAKISTAN CURRENCY NOT LEGAL TENDER IN INDIA
March, 30, Bombay: The Reserve Bank of India announced yesterday that the Government of Pakistan’s one rupee notes, inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” in English and Urdu in the current pattern of the Government of India one rupee notes and Pakistan coins of distinctive design in the same denomination’s as the present India coins, will be released in Pakistan from April 1, 1948. These notes and coins will not be legal tender in India though they will be legal tender in Pakistan.

Part 4

KARACHI – DACCA AIRMAILS
April 22, 1948, Karachi: A press note of the Director General, Post and Telegraph, on airmail service between West and East Pakistan says: “It has now been arranged to send airmail correspondence in either direction by the British Overseas Airways Corporation services operating between Karachi and Calcutta combined with Orient Airways services between Calcutta and Dacca on the five days on which Orient Airway services do not operate”.

PLEBICITE IN CHANDERNAGORE
May 1, 1948, Chandernagore: Probably next month – 50,000 people – the total population of Chandernagore, the French territory 21 miles north of Calcutta – will decide by means of plebiscite whether or not Chandernagore will merge with the Indian Union…
Chandernagore, an area of 51/2 sq miles, now administered by seven Indians, composing the Council of Administrator, with a French Administrator at is head. Last November when agitation for merging Chandernagore with India reached its peak, the French declared it a “free city”, giving it the right to control its finances. Two flags, Indian and French, still fly side by side over official buildings.

DELHI TO BE LINKED WITH KASHMIR BY AIR
A temporary license has been granted to Messers Dalmia Ja Airways ltd. to operate a scheduled air transport service on the Delhi – Srinagar route with immediate effect, with an optional halt at Amritsar, says a Press note, issued by Deputy High Commissioner for India in Lahore Jammu will be included on the route at a later date.
The service will be operated on a daily frequency in the first instance, and the frequency will be increased to twice daily or more, as and when necessary…

PAKISTAN AIRMAIL TO INDIA
May 11, Karachi: Under the existing arrangements, airmail, correspondence from Pakistan for Bombay, Hyderabad (Dn) and Madras and other places in India, served through these offices, is dispatched twice a week by the Orient Airways. Karachi – Bombay service and on other days, by the Air India’s service, says a Press note issued by the Ministry of Communications.
The Orient Airways have since increased the frequency of their Karachi – Bombay service from (9) May to 4 times a week and are operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturday s. According the dispatch of such airmails to India will now be confined to the Orient Airways. These mails will be flown to Bombay from where they will be dispatched to their respective destinations by the quickest surface route.
Airmail correspondence for Ceylon will however; continue to be dispatched by the Air India’s service as at present.

PAKISTAN AIR SERVICES WITH LINKS IN INDIA
May 27, 1948, Karachi: The government of Pakistan it is learnt have decided to give licences to the Orient Airways and Pakistan Mercantile Corporation for operating air services in Pakistan with air links in India…

PAKISTAN – HONG KONG – JAPAN POST BY AIR
May 28, 1948, Karachi: A press note of the Ministry of Communications Government of Pakistan states: Airmail articles for Japan are now accepted by the post offices in Pakistan. Subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to surface mails for that country, such articles will be carried through out by air.
These articles should be superscribed “Pakistan- Hong Kong-Japan” and a blue “Air Mail” label should be affixed at the top left hand corner.
The rates of air mail fee including postage, will be as follows:
For letter or a packet up to ½ ounce: 12 annas
For every additional half-ounce or part thereof: 12 annas
For a post card: 4 annas

PAKISTAN TO ESTABLISH SECURITY PRESS?
May 13, 1948, Karachi: It is understood that the Pakistan Government have obtained the collaboration of a well known British firm for the establishment of a Security Printing Press in Pakistan.
The Ministry of Finance is at present trying its best to print currency notes of the State Bank of Pakistan in its on Security Printing Press. To train its own national, the Government proposes to send some young Pakistanis to the UK in the near future.

FIRST AMRITSAR – SRINAGAR AIRFREIGHT SERVICE
For the first time an air freight service for carriage of freight between Amritsar and Srinagar has been introduced by the Air Transport Licensing Board, says a Press note from the Deputy High Commissioner for India in Lahore.
The Dalmia Jain Airways Ltd. have been given a temporary licence to operate this service with effect from June 5, 1948, by the Dakota type of aircraft, on a frequency of thrice a week, namely on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays….

JUPITER AIRWAYS SERVICE INAUGURATED
June 8, 1948, New Delhi: Mr. K P S Menon, Secretary External Affairs Ministry today inaugurated the Delhi – Madras service of the Jupiter Airways. The Indian public will now have the benefit of one more air company operating a fleet of eight more Dakotas between Delhi and Madras via Nagpur. The distance will be covered in about eight hours. The present route, which is provisional will in another two months time, be altered to the permanent route via Jubbalpore and Bezwads.
The plane “GARUDA” took off on its first scheduled flight to Madras this morning – June 8, 1948.

AIRSERVICES FROM CALCUTTA TO DACCA AND CHITTAGONG
June 18, 1948: The Air Transport Licensing Board has granted a provision licence to AIRWAYS (INDIA) LTD., to operate a scheduled air transport service o the Calcutta – Dacca route on a daily frequency with immediate effect. The company has been given the option to increase the frequency to twice daily or more, if justified, says a Press Note of the Deputy High Commissioner for India in Pakistan issued in Lahore on Thursday (June 17, 1948).
The Board has also granted a provision licence to Bharat Airways Limited to operate a scheduled air transport service on the Calcutta – Chittagong route thrice weekly with immediate effect.

DELHI – LAHORE BY INA 10 TIMES A WEEK
June 22, 1948, New Delhi: Due to heavy congestion on the Delhi – Lahore service operated by Indian National Airways Limited, the Air Transport Licensing Board has permitted INA to increase the frequency of this service from seven to ten times a week with effect from June 22, 1948, says a Press Note issued by the Ministry of Communications.
The additional service will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday s on the following time table:
Departure Delhi – 7:30 am, Arrival Lahore – 9:15 am Departure – 9:45 am, Arrival Delhi – 11:30 am

DELHI - AMRITSAR THRICE WEEKLY SERVICE
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Departure Delhi - 14:30, Arrival Amritsar - 16:15 Departure – 16:45, Arrival Delhi – 18:30

NO AIRCRAFT MAY ENTER HYDERBAD – DECCAN AIRWAYS LICENCE CANCELLED BY INDIA
July 12, 1948, Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s only remaining air link with India was cut today when Deccan Airways a company incorporated in Hyderabad state, suspended all its services following cancellation of its licence by the Government of India.
It will be recalled that all other air lines had ceased operating via Hyderabad earlier this week.
On June 29 a Bombay message said Mr. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Minister of Communications, Government of India confirmed that all air services passing thorugh Hyderabad State territory had been asked not to touch down at any of the Hyderabad aerodromes for any purposes. The Communications Minister did not give any reason for this step.

TRICHY – CLOMBO AIR SERVICE
July 3, 1948, Trichinopoly: A regular air service between Trichinopoly and Colombo, operated by Ceylon Airways, is expected to commence on July 27, 1948.

POSTAGE CONCESSIONS FOR B.O.Rs
June 24, 1948, Karachi: With immediate effect postage concessions allowed to members of the public and Pakistani troops to send air mail and surface correspondence to His Majesty’s Forces abroad is with drawn, says a Press Note. Such correspondence should therefore, be prepaid with the normal surface postage and airmail fee.
Also with immediate effect the following revised concessions will be allowed to British Officers and other ranks accepted for service in Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force. RAF personnel in Pakistan will also be entitled to the same concession.
The revised concessions will be as follows:
Surface Mail:
For the first ounce – 1-1/2 annas
For each additional ounce – 1 anna
Airmail:
For the first ounce – 2-1/2 annas
For each additions ½ ounce – 6 annas

Part 5

DELHI – SRINAGAR AIR LINK
July 17, 1948, The Dalmia Jain Airways are now operating a daily air service between Delhi and Srinagar and Delhi.
Departure and Arrival timings are as below:
Departure – Delhi – 06:30 am, Arrival – Srinagar – 10:00 am, Departure– 14:55 pm, Arrival Delhi – 15:25 pm

PAK AIR
Daily scheduled service commencing on August 1, 1948.
From LAHORE to KARACHI & DELHI
Departure - KARACHI – 06:30, Arrival – LAHORE – 10:30 - Departure – 11:00, Arrival – DELHI – 12:45
Departure – DELHI – 14:00, Arrival – LAHORE – 15:45 Departure – 16:15, Arrival – KARACHI – 20:00

DUSK-TO-DAWN AIRMAIL – INDIAN P&T SCHEME / FIRST IN WORLD
July 27, 1948, New Delhi: The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department shortly propose to revolutionise the airmail delivery system so far as five big Indian cities are concerned. Under the proposed scheme, airmail letter posted in Delhi until six o’clock in the evening will be delivered in Madras, Calcutta, Bombay and Allahabad the following morning before breakfast.
In order to implement this revolutionary scheme, the Postal authorities will run their own air service, which will operate at night. Once the night air service is established, postal places will carry all types of postal freight including parcels.
There will be daily services in both direction between these five towns and it is contemplated that the aircraft to be purchased will be freighters. The new experiment is likely to be in operation by the close of the year.
At present no country in the world has such a service in existence. The proposed scheme involves a budget of some crores of rupees.

NO P&T SERVICE TO AREAS FORICBLY TAKEN BY INDIA
July 27, 1948, Karachi: The Pakistan Government will not accept mails for any areas situated in Junagarh and Manavadan States, states a Press Note of the Posts and Telegraph Department, Government of Pakistan, issued here today.
On the establishment of Pakistan the Press Note adds, Junagarh and Manavadan States acceded to Pakistan. Before the administration of the Posts and Telegraphs service in these states could be taken over by the Pakistan Government, forces of the Indian Dominion, however, unconstitutionally and forcibly went into the states and forcible occupied them.
It is therefore, not possible for the Pakistan Government to maintain the Posts and Telegraphs services in these areas, nor can this administration arrange for the conveyance of mails, addressed to destinations therein and posted in other areas, which are under the forcible and unconstitutional occupation of the Indian Dominion.

DELHI – MADRAS – DELHI – JUPITER AIRWAYS LTD.
Departure – Delhi – 07:30, Arrival – Nagpur – 10:35 Departure – 11:05, Arrival – Vizagapatam – 13:20 Departure – 13:50, Arrival – Madras – 16:30

Departure – Madras – 07:30, Arrival – Vizagapatam – 10:10 Departure – 10:35, Arrival – Nagpur – 12:50 Departure 13:20
Arrival – Delhi – 16:30

AIR SERVICES OF INDIA PLANE
April, 13, 1946, London: The aircraft is leaving the Hatfield aerodrome on Thursday next on its delivery flight to India on behalf of the Air Services of India, Limited. It will be given a warm send off at the aerodrome on Thursday morning at a reception arranged by the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scindia Steamships (London) Limited.

PAK AIR – LAHORE – KARACHI – DELHI
Lahore – Karachi – Delhi flight will operate to the following revised timings from Monday August 9, 1948
Departure – Karachi – 06:15, Arrival – Lahore – 10:15 Departure – 10:45, Arrival – Delhi – 12:45
Departure – Delhi – 14:00, Arrival – Lahore – 16:00 Departure – 16:30, Arrival – Karachi – 20:30

POSTAL SERVICE BY AIR TO QUETTA
August 27, 1948, Karachi: Due to floods in Sind and consequent absence of direct railway connection, the Posts and Telegraph Department have arranged for carriage of mails by air to Quetta and the service is now arranged run almost daily. Only such mails on which airmail postage has been paid are so carried. Ordinary surface mails are transshipped between Si and Shikarpur by boat and Shikarpur is maintaing train service to Quetta as well as Larkana breach-head via Jacobabad. – APS

STATE BANK TO ISSUE NEW PAKISTAN NOTES FROM OCTOBER 1, 1948
September 2, 1948, Karachi: A Press Note of the State Bank of Pakistan states that the Government of Pakistan notes of the denominations of Rs. 5, Rs. 10 and Rs. 100 will issued by the State Bank of Pakistan at its offices at Karachi, Lahore, and Dacca with effect from October 1, 1948 and from as many treasuries, sub treasuries and branches of the Imperial Bank of India as possible.
…The Reserve Bank of India notes inscribed with the words “Government of Pakistan” will remain legal tender side by side with Government of Pakistan notes.

ORIENT AIRWAYS – SERVICE SCHEDULE
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays – North Bound
Departure – Karachi – 06:00 , Arrival – Rawalpindi – 11:35 Departure – 12:05, Arrival – Peshawar – 12:55

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays – South Bound
Departure – Peshawar – 14:00, Arrival – Rawalpindi – 14:50 Departure – 15:20, Arrival – Lahore – 16:40 Departure 17:10, Arrival – Karachi – 21:10

Wednesdays and Sundays
Departure – Karachi – 06:00, Arrival – Lahore – 09:50 Departure – 10:20, Arrival – Rawalpindi – 11:35 Departure – 13:00
Arrival – Lahore – 14:15 Departure – 14:45, Arrival – Karachi – 18:35

Mondays and Fridays
Departure – Karachi – 06:00, Arrival – Quetta – 08:30 Departure – 09:00, Arrival – Lahore – 12:00 Departure – 13:00, Arrival – Quetta – 16:00 Departure – 16:30, Arrival – Karachi – 19:00

Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays
Departure – Karachi – 06:00, Arrival – Bombay – 11:00 Departure – 12:30, Arrival – Karachi – 16:00

Daily Except Sundays – South Bound
Departure – Calcutta – 06:00, Arrival – Chittagong – 07:30 Departure – 08:00, Arrival – Akyab – 09:00 Departure – 09:30,
Arrival – Rangoon – 11:30

Daily Except Sundays – North Bound
Departure – Rangoon – 12:30, Arrival – Akyab – 14:30 Departure – 15:00, Arrival – Chittagong – 16:00 Departure – 16:30, Arrival – Calcutta – 18:00

Daily Service
Departure – Calcutta – 08:00, Arrival – Dacca – 09:00 Departure – 09:30, Arrival – Chittagong – 10:30 Departure – 11:00,
Arrival – Dacca – 12:00 Departure – 12:30, Arrival – Calcutta – 13:30

RESUMPTION OF DECCAN AIRWAY SERVICES PERMISSION SOUGHT
September 27, 1948, Secundrabad: Representations have been made on behalf of the Deccan Airways, 51 percent of whose shares are owned by the Nizam’s Government, for permission to resume services, it is learnt.
The services were suspended early in August under orders of the Civil Aviation Directorate of the Government of India.

COMPETITION FOR DESIGN OF NEW PAKISTAN STAMP / PRIZE OF Rs. 250 OFFERED

BOAC FLYING BOATS
New Port of call – Alexandria instead of Cairo – will be in use from October 24, 1948 Marine Airport on Lake Mariut.

Part 6

INDIAN NATIONAL AIRWAYS’ NEW DAILY MORNING SERVICE – DELHI – LAHORE ROUTE
“In order to meet public requirements INA have decided to operate, with effect from November 1, 1948, a daily morning service to Lahore and back.
Departure – Delhi – 07:30, Arrival – Lahore – 09:15 Departure – 10:00, Arrival – Delhi – 11:45
In addition to the above service, an afternoon service will be operated by this company three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leaving Delhi at 14:30 hr and arriving Lahore at 16:15 hrs. This service will arrive Delhi at 18:45 hr leaving Lahore at 17:00 hours”

KARACHI – ISTANBUL PAK AIR SERVICE
October 25, 1948, Karachi: PAK AIR hopes to start its weekly Karachi to Istanbul air service by November 15, 1948 Mr. Hussain Malick, Pak Air’s Managing Director, said yesterday.
Mr. Malick said that the route of the proposed air service would be Karachi – Tehran – Basra – Damascus – Cairo – Istanbul.
Four Skymasters have been purchased by the Company, while two of the Company’s pilot had returned to Karachi after undergoing intensive flying training in Oakland, California.

INDIA’S INTERMEDIATE STOP FOR AIR SERVICE TO COLOMBO
October 29, 1948, Bombay: Hakimpet Airport, near Hyderabhad will be an intermediate stop for Air India’s Bombay – Colombo service from November 1, 1948. The Air India’s Bombay – Colombo service had suspended its stop at Hakimpet on June 29 under instructions from the Directorate of Civil Aviation, India.

ONLY ‘FINCOM’ STAMPS VALID AFTER OCTOBER 31, 1948
After October 31, 1948, only those Indian Court Fee and non judicial stamps, which have been surcharged with the facsimile signature of the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, West Pakistan, and the word ‘FINCOM’, will be valid in this province, says a Press Note of the West Punjab Public Relation Director.
The sale of unsurcharged Indian court fee and non-judicial stamps will be discontinued after that day.

NEW DESIGN OF INDIAN CURRENCY NOTE - ASOKA PILLAR TO REPLACE KING’S HEAD
November 10, 1948, New Delhi: The Asoka Pillar will replace King George’s head on the new currency notes now being designed.
A beginning will be made with the one-rupee note, which will in the first instance be printed on paper bearing King George’s head in watermark. Later both the watermark and the pictorial impression will have the Asoka Pillar. On the obverse side of the one-rupee note, instead of the replica of the one-rupee coin, there will be a rosette.
The expected new one-rupee note design notes will be issued early next year, but notes of higher denomination are likely to take a longer time. All these will bear the signature of the Secretary of Finance Ministry, instead of the Governor of the Reserve Bank as at present. Even after the introduction of the new notes of existing notes will continue to be legal tender.

DIRECT INDIA – USA AIR MAIL SERVICE
November 22, 1948, Calcutta: Pan American is participating for the first time in direct airmail flights to the United States. For the present New York city will be distributing point for all US destination until such time as an Indian Exchange Control office can be provided at San Francisco.
Thus the Indian mails destined to America for the first time will now travel on the same flight without transplanting.
Mails for South America will be included in the same pouches and be embarked for Latin and South American destination immediately upon arrival in New York. This is now the fastest way that mails can be dispatched for the western hemisphere.

PAK AIR DAKOTA / VIHARI AIR DISASTER
Pak Airways 21 seater Dakota crashed Vihari in Multan district, 196 miles from Lahore, on Friday November 26, 1948.
This is stated to be the second passenger aircraft crash since the establishment of Pakistan.
PAK AIR
The following schedule of Daily service commencing from November 22, 1948
Service No. 1 Karachi – Lahore – Delhi – Karachi
Departure – Karachi – 08:00, Arrival – Lahore – 12:00 Departure – 13:00, Arrival – Delhi – 15:00 Departure – 16:00,
Arrival – Karachi – 20:00

Service No. 2
Departure – Karachi – 09:15, Arrival – Delhi – 13:15 Departure – 14:15, Arrival – Lahore – 16:15 Departure – 16:45,
Arrival – Karachi – 20:45

PAK AIR
Skymaster weekly west bound service to Cairo via Baghdad and Damascus commencing November 30, 1948. Southbound to Colombo via Bombay on December 2, 1948.

AMRITSAR – DELHI AIR SERVICES
December 4, 1948, Amritsar: The thrice weekly air service between Amritsar and Delhi run by Bharat Airways continue uninterrupted on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The news published in C & M Gazette of September 21, 1948 is based on incorrect information regarding the discontinuance.

NEW ONE AND TWO RUPEE NOTES FROM JANUARY 1949
December 13, 1948, Karachi: The new one rupee and two-rupee notes of distinctive designs, will be issued by the State Bank of Pakistan in January 1949, it is officially announced here today.
The main printing on the front of the one rupee note is in green, with orange and pink bands in the center. At the right and, the Pakistan crescent and stare are reproduced in green outline. At the left end of the note, the crescent and star appear as a watermark in the paper.
On the back, the main green printing shows a reproduction of the Mughal pavilion in the Lahore Fort, in the left and center of the note. A watermark panel appears at the right hand of the note, and round this panel is an ornamental floral design.
A floral pattern appears round the borders of the note, and based on the design of a copper ‘surahi’.
The words “Hukumat – Pakistan” appear in Urdu at the center.
The main printing on the front of the two-rupee note is in brown. The painting shows on the right hand side, a reproduction of Jehangir’s Tomb, and has under inscription in the center of the note, with the signature of the Governor of the State Bank in Urdu at the bottom.
The back of the note shows, in the center and to the left of the note, a reproduction of the Badshahi Mosque, Lahore.

ADDITIONAL LAHORE – DELHI AIR SERVICES FROM TODAY
In order to cope with an increase in Lahore – Delhi traffic, Indian National Airways have decided to operate additional services on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leaving Lahore at 5 pm and arriving Delhi at 6:45 pm.
The first of these additional services will operate on Saturday December 18.

EXCHANGE OF INDIA NOTES IN PAKISTAN
December 24, 1948, Karachi: It was officially announced yesterday that the Pakistan Government have decided to extend the period during which India notes of all denomination, except one rupee notes, may be exchanged for Pakistan notes to March 31, 1949.
Hitherto India notes which cease to be legal tender in Pakistan after September 30, 1948 last could be exchanged for Pakistan notes upto December 31, 1948.
 

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