NEW
ZEALAND
PHILATELIC
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POST
OFFICE
BULLETIN
Inquiries about N_ Zealand and Island Dependencies Sumps are to be addressed . to the Philatelic 'BurlllUl. ~neral Post OfIIce. Well/netor'. N.Z.
January.
No. 42
1967
I. Withdrawal fJI CurrwIt L .. do Starnt-
All £.s.d. New Zealand and Island Dependencies stamps will be withdrawn from Bale on 9 July 1967. From 10 July only. decillal currency stamps will be available-at all post offices and the Philatelic Bureau. For the convenience of overseas clients wishing to purchase £.s.d. stamps before they are w~tharawn from sale, a special o~der form has been prepared and is enclosed with copies of this issue of the Bulletin which are posted to overseas addresses. The early receipt of these orders would be appreciated. For inland clients, the New Zealand £.s.d. stamps are available at all post offices and the £.s.d. Island Dependencies stamps at the Chief Post Offices, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. All these issues are, of course, also available to New Zealand clients by post from the Philatelic Bureau, General Post Office, Wellington, or at the Bureau which is located at 66A Courtens;r Place, Wellington. 2.
New Z........ Decimal
eurr.cy samp.
Full details about the decimal currency stamp issue to be placed on sale on 10 July 1967 will be given .in the next issue or the Bulletin which is due to be released in March 1967. ).
e-tenar)' vf .... Z....nd PoIIt OffIce
Sa.'''p .nk
Details of the set of two stamps to be placed on sale on February 1967 to commemorate the centenary of the New Zealand Post Office Savings Bank are: ~
Denominations No. to a sheet Sheet values (in top righthand corner) Plate Nos. (in bottom righthand corner)
4d. 120 £2 4d.
9d.
9d. 120 fA. 10s.0d. 1A 1A 1A, 1B 1B 1B. 2A 2A 2A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
The printer's imprint is in the bottom left-hand corner.
Unless
stocks are exhausted earlier the stamps will be withdrawn from sale at post offices and at the Philatelic Bureau on 9 July 1967.
<t. Christmas Stamp, 1966 The 1966 Christmas stamp has been withdrawn from sale at post offices but may be obtained from the Philatelic Bureau until 9 July 1967. 5.
Chalk-Surfaced Paper
The following ceprinted pictorial stamps on chalk-surfaced paper are availabl' from the Philatelic Bureau, General Post Office, Wellington: 1d., id., 2s.0d., 3s.0d., 5s.0d., and 10s.0d. Other pictorial stamps voich are available on chalk-surfaced paper but which are NOT reprints are - 2id., 5d., 6d., 7d. and 1s.9d. (multicolour). 6. Stamp Programme 1967-1971
10 July 1967 A new set of New Zealand stamps printed for the changeover to decimal currency will be issued on 10 July 1967. The stamps will retain the existing designs with the value for decimal currency. There will be 18 values in the new set. As there will be no need for stamps of eqUivalent decimal values, the 2}d., 1s.3d. and 1s.9d. designs will not be re-issued. Full details about the decimal ~urrency issue will be supplied with an order form for decimal ~urrency stamps and first day covers which will be enclosed in the next issue of the Bulletin.
August 1967 A 7ic stamp will be issued to commemorate the centenary of the introduction of the Brown Trout into New Zealand. This stamp will then become part of the set of the decimal currency definitive stamp issue.
Early 1968 rhe 10c (1s.0d.) and the 25c (2s.6d.) stamps will be re-issued in new designs and the 15c (1s.6d.) and $2 (ÂŁ1) values will be reprinted in modified shadings of the existing colours.
222Q A complete new set of New Zealand definitive stamps will be produced. Niue Island 1969 A newly-designed set of Niue Island stamps will be
~roduced.
Government Lire Insurance Orrice 1969 Consideration will be given to issuing a new series in this year. Tokelau Islands 1970 Consideration will be given to producing a newly-designed definitive issue, Ross Dependency 1971 A complete new set of the definitive issue is planned for this year. 7. "Postage Stamps of New Zealand", Volume V
The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Inc. had advised that pre-publication orders are now being accepted for Volume V of "The Postage Stamps of New Zealand", "The Stamps and Postal History of the Pacific Islands under New Zealand Administration, Samoa, and the Ross Dependency" by R.J.G. Collins, edited by A.R. Burge and C.W. Watts. This volume covers the Cook Islands, Aitutaki, Penrhyn and ~iue Islands, the Tokelau and Kermadec Dependencies, and the postal agencies of Pitcairn, Washington and Fanning Islands. A feature is the number and quality of the illustrations and maps (200 pages out of a total of 760) with 8 pages of colour plates of proofs and essays. The publishing date is April/May 1967. The pre-publication price for orders received up to 31 March 1967 is ÂŁ6 6s.0d. plus postage (Within New Zealand 4s.0d., overseas 5s.0d.). Thereafter the price will be ÂŁ8 8s.0d., plUS postage. The edition will be limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. Orders may be placed now with the Secretary, Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, p.a. Box 1269, Wellington, New Zealand, from whom a prospectus containing additional information and an order form may be obtained. 8.
U.T.A. Inaugural Flight to Noumea
Because of the postponement at short notice of the U.T.A. Inaugural flight from Auckland to Noumea from 14 December to 15 December, it was not possible to use the special fixed-type date-stamp.which had been manufactured for use on first day covers carried on the flight. As there was not sufficient time to manufacture a new date-stamp, the first day covers were postmarked at Auckland with an ordinary steel date-stamp. 9. Postal Joumal
Some recent articles which have appeared in the "Union Postale" published monthly by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland, concerned the prompt delivery service introduced by the Chinese Administration, various uses of microfilm in the Swiss P.T.T. Services, standardisation of packing and the mechanisation and automation of counter operations. Articles on stamps were "Stamps for Food", "Centenary of the First Postage Stamp
n Yugoslavia". The magazine is published in 7 languages and nformation and some illustrations of new stamp issues are published n the French section of each issue. The annual subscription for the "Union Postale" is 9 Swiss francs (about 15s.0d. N.Z.) payable by money order or a draft on Switzerland payable at sight. Subscriptions should be sent to the Internatiorial Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland. 10.
Offices Opened and CIOHd
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District
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OPENED Bethlehem Glengarry Glenwood Lancaster Ioloerewa Central Otaika Otonga Road Whakamaru
Rotorua Invercargill Timaru Auckland¡ Whangarei Whangarei Rotorua Hamilton
14.11.66 28.10.66 3.10.66 10.10.66 1.11.66 30.11.66 27.10.66 5.12.66
CLOSED Mangatiti Pukemiro Junction Puketutu Te Awaiti Upper l4atakitaki
Palmerston North Hamilton Hamilton Blenheim Nelson
7.12.66 16.11.66. 9.12.66 1.10.66 14. 9.66