NEW
ZEALAND
PHILATELIC
POST
OFFICE
BULLETIN
Inquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director-General, Postal Division, G.P.O., Wellington, N.Z. July, 1966
No. 40.
I.
Christmas Stamp, 1966.
This year's Christmas stamp will be a reproduction of "The Virgin with Child" by Carlo Maratta. The stamp is being printed by the photogravure process in four colours by Messrs Harrison and Sons Ltd., London. The denomination is 3d and there are 60 stamps to a sheet. The sheet value is 15s. The stamp is to be placed on sale on 3rd October. Unless supplies are exhausted earlier the stamp will be withdrawn from sale at post offices on 7th January, 1967, but may continue to be ordered by post from the Postal Division, General Post Office, Wellington, until 31st July, 1967. Background Notes: w.aratta was a distinguished and successful painter of the 17th century and when his art came to be noticed by Pope Alexander VII in the middle 1600's he secured many important commissions for altar pieces in Italian churches. He also painted portraits of members of the Papal Court and was the foremost portrait painter during that period. He painted many religious compositions and ~osterity owes him much for his restoration work in preserv1ng the frescoes of Raphael in the Vatican. Maratta was acquainted with history, architecture, and perspective and used his knowledge skilfully. The original painting of "The Virgin with Child" hangs in the Kunsthistorische Museum of Vienna.
2.
Health Stamps, 1966
Clients are reminded that the 1966 Health stamps will be on sale at all post offices and at the Postal Division, ~en"Jlrf!.l Post Office, fro)ll 3rd August. Unless stocks,9-r,!,! " " .eXb.usted ',earlier the stamps will. be withdrawn from sale" .l!r.~ -: : post offices ~ the Postal Division on 30th No'Vemb.er,;> 1'966. The designs are New Zealand native birds - the weka and the bellbird. The 4d stamp is pale blue in colour with the bellbird in natural blue-green-yellow colours against a branch of the native yellow Kowhai tree. . The 5d stamp is pale green showing the weka in brown tones against darker green fern fronds. The printer's name (Harrison & Sons Ltd London) and the plate numbers are on the bottom left-hand corner and the sheet value is on the top right~hand corner. The large sheets contain 120 stamps in 12 rows of 10. Plate blocks are only supplied in blocks of12 stamps. The miniature sheets contain six stamps and have the printer's name on the bottom of the sheets. There are no plate numbers. The values of the miniature sheets are 2s.6d. and 2s. The souvenir envelopes produced by the Children's-Health Camps Federation will be used for all first day covers unless clients' own covers are forwarded. The cost of the souvenir envelope is 3d and the servicing fee for each cover is 2d. 3.
Rubber Hand-Cancellen
The usual rubber hand-canceller service will be available for the 1966 Health and the 1966 Christmas stamp issues and, as mentioned in Bulletin No, 39, the service has been extended to all 21 Chief Post Offices. Special posting boxes will be provided at the Chief Offices on both occasions and all covers posted in the special boxes will be postmarked with the rubber handcancellers instead of the usual steel hand datestamps. Persons residing outside the 21 Chief Office cities or towns who are desirous of haVing covers marked with the hand-cancellers should forward their remittance and addressed envelopes under cover to the Chief Postmasters concerned with a request that the envelopes be cancelled with the rubber hand-canceller. A servicing fee of 2d for each cover should be included in the remittance and the outside cover or wrapping should be endorsed "Covers for cancellation with hand-canceller on (date)". Written requests should reach Chief Postmasters not later than Monday, 1st August for Health stamps and Friday, 30th September for Christmas stamps.
4. Westem Samoa
A set of four stamps was issued on 4th July to commemoratethe opening of the World Health Organisation new headquarters building at Geneva. The denominations of the stamps are 3d., 4d., 6d. and 1s.Od. They all feature the World Health Organisation building at Geneva and were printed in clear pastel colours on Western Samoa kava-bowl watermarked paper by Messrs Thomas De La Rue and Co. Ltd., London. The stamps are available for New Zealand collectors from the Postal Division, General Post Office, Wellington, and at the Chief Post Office, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington. Overseas collectors should address their orders to the Chief Postmaster, Apia, Western Samoa. The plate number 1A 1A 1A is printed on the lower right-hand corner of the sheets and the sheet value is on the top right-hand corner. There is no imprint •. The sheets comprise 120 stamps. The stamps will be withdrawn from sale on 4th October, 1966. 5. Tokelau Islands
In order to give the Tokelau Islands a greater range of postage stamp values, it is proposed to issue three additional stamps. The stamps will be the New Zealand fiscal design (i.e., New Zealand Coat of Arms) overprinted in black with the denomination on top of the stamp and the words "Tokelau I'slands" below. The denominations and colours are 6d. blue, Bd. green, and 2s.0d. flesh. A firm date of issue for these new stamps is not available but orders should be forwarded promptly to the Postal Division, General Post Office, Wellington. Orders for first day cancellations on plain white envelopes will be accepted, and forwarded to any or all of the three Tokelau Islands post offices, Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunono, for cancellation. A fee of 3d. is to be included for the purchase and servicing of each envelope. The fee is 2d. when an addressed envelope is enclosed. Clients must understand that the return of the covers depends on shipping. There is no airmail service to the Tokelau Islands and as .shipping is restricted to three or four visits a year, some weeks could elapse between the dispatch and receipt of mail. There are two printings of each denomination and slight shading variations are apparent between the two printings. 6.
New Zealand Pictorial
available. 7.
A new plate number, 3337, in the 3d. denomination is It was issued on 27th June, 1966.
Reprints of certain denominations
The reprints of the 5s.Od. and 10s.Od. denominations of the 1960 Pictorial issue referred to in Bulletin No. 39 have the same
plate numbers as previous printings and the plate number of the 2s. value should read 1A 1C not 1A 1A. The reprints are, in fact, unchanged except for slight variations in shading. 8. Stamps available by post
The following stamp issues have been withdrawn from sale at post offices but may be ordered by post from the Director-General, Postal Division, General Post Office, Wellington. Unless stocks are exhausted earlier, they will be available until the date shown. Stamps Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Christmas 1965 Scout Jamboree 9.
Denominations 4d 1A 1B 9d 1A
Available Until
(plates 1A 1A 1A 1B 1B 1B) (plate 1A 1A 1A)
31.8.66 31.8.66 30.7.66 30.11.66
3d 4d
Offices opened and closed.
OPENED Name
District
~
Blagdon Lynfield hl.arsden Power Station Rathgar Road
New Plymouth Auckland
14. 6.66 20. 6.66
Whangarei Auckland
15. 4.66 9. 5.66
CLOSED Name
District
Date
Lowgarth Mangaroa Mount Ruapehu Otakou South Bay Southbrook Weedons Air Force
New Plymouth Wellington Wanganui Dunedin Blenheim Christchurch Christchurch
30. 6.66 13. 5.66 25.10.65 31. 5.66 27.11.65 30. 6.66
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