Series 4 new zealand philatelic bulletin no 11 1974 february

February, 1974

Produced by the Post Office Philatelic Bureau, Private Bag, Wellington.

No. 11

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NEW ZEALAND DAY

stamp issue

TOP NEW ZEALAND stamp designers co-operated with the Post Office in developing the New Zealand Day stamp issue released this month.

Two designers - Don Hatcher and Allan Mitchell - cam· pleted the artwork.

The five 4c stamps make up a complete set on a miniatu re sheet.

Centre stamp is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth 11 who of-

ficated at the celebrations on February 6 to mark New Zea-

land's first national day.

February 6 is the anniverthe signing of the Treaty of Waitangi - the agreement between the Maori tribes and Governor Hobson. This made New Zealand a British Colony.

It was chosen as the day best suited to celebrate New Zealand's growing identity as a modern multi-racial nation.

The four horizontal stamps reflect the historical ba~k­ ground of Waitangi and look toward the future.

On a white background, the designs are colourful and decorative.

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One depicts Ihe T realy House at Waitangi. The sec~nd

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is an impression of Ihe actual signing of the Treaty by a Maori Chief and Governor Hobson.

An architectural Impress. ion of the extensions to Parliament Buildings currently un· der construction in Wellington is on the th!rd stamp.

The last shows a multiracial class of New Zealand school children.

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The paper was use 1 l)y Davle pflntlng he major Ity of t 11 face OL.cen" stamps, n 1863 t was dec dee that the letters NZ" sho d re

Overall measu rement of the souvenir sheet is 73.66mm X 131.06mm with the cenlral vertical Royal stamp 48.26mm x 24.13mm and the horizontal stamps measuring 24.13mm x 40.72mm.

They are printed in five colours by Harrison & Sons on white unwatermarked coated paper and gummed wilh

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hehalf , Ihe New Zealan~ Gover,., Cl' dt Cut 1935 t VII 5 made Wlft, a SI feways w telmdrK

A second dandy roll with an uprlyht watermark was hought Ih 1937 Iy 1955 the No. 1 dandy roll was shOWing signs of wear and WdS reccvered t)ut In 1Q64 a thord. dnd as', dandy roll, With m upright water ~ark deSign, was bought by Samuel Jones

1974

stamp issues

The following stamp issues will complete the 1974 pr~gramme:- April 3: Universal Postal Union; Centenary of Napier.

June 5: Air Transport in New Zealand. August 7: Health. October 2: Christmas issue. December 4: New Zealand's off-shore islands scenery.

innovation In a new innovation for the New ZeaPost Office the set of steam locomotive stamps will be reproduced on postcards later this year. Four of the postcards will show individual Steam locomotives and the filth the full set of the issue.

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stamps commemorate international sporting events CHRISTCHURCH and Dunedin last month hosted the Xth British Commonwealth Games and the fourth Paraplegic Commonwealth Games.

Both events were marked by a special stamp issue and a special souvenir stamp pack.

The stamps were issued on January 9.

They are based on designs by Mark Cleveley and were printed in England by Harrison & Sons Ltd. The stamp size is 24.13 mm x 40.64.mm.

The first "Empire" Games were held in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and eleven countries took part. At Christchurch about 40 countries attended.

They will remain on sale at Post Offices until March 31 ---"od will be available from the Philatelic Bureau, Private Bag, Wellington and Philatelic Sales Positions until April 30, 1975.

The term "Empire" was changed "British Commonwealth" in 1966.

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The first Paraplegic Commonwealth Games were held in Perth, Western Australia, in 1962.

Stamp issues by member countries are described in full in the Universal Postal Union's monthly magazine" Union Postale", published in seven languages.

"Union Postale" also contains art¡ icles relating to postal services and recent articles include "Tagging of stamps in Canada", "The development of the postal service in the People's Republic of China", "The National Postal Museum, London", "A letter 2500 years old".

It also contains news from the International Bureau and information about new postal films.

Annual subscription is nine Swiss francs payable by money order or a cheqae dra~on a bank in Switzerlana.

Subscriptions to: The International Bureau of Universal Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland.

mountain scenery m~~~~d pictor¡ Is behina ., new stamps

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By Post Office Reporter Witi Ihimaera

The New Zealand Post Office's latest pictorials issued on December 5 feature mountain scenery.

Towering to the summit at 10,350 feet, Mount Sefton is an awe inspiring peak on the main divide of the Southern Alps.

ountains have always held a mystical attraction for men. Regarded with awe and reverence, they have been incorporated into the romantic ethos of myth.

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So it is with Mount Sefton, known to the Maori people of New Zealand as Maunga Atua - Mountain of the (3ods.

The mountain is pictured on the 1Sc stamp of the New Zealand Post Office's series of four mountain stamps.

Mount Sefton is a dominant peak in the Mount Cook National Park. Within the park. or located on the boundary ranges, are the majority of New Zealand's

great mountains, and all save two of those summits are over 10,000 feet in height.

A region of startling beauty, the park takes its name from Mt Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain - thought to have been called Aorangi by the Maori and poetically translated as "Cloud

Piercer" .

Mount Sefton is no less imposing. A tremendous ice precipice, it is an important feature of the 173,000 acres of snow, ice, rock, subalpine scrub, tussock, grey riverbed and pale blue lakes which compose the ice-sheathed roof of New Zealand's South Island.

The Alps run the full length of the South Island, upthrusting to a high alps region from Elie de Beaumont in the north to Sefton in the south. Branching from the main divide are a number of ranges including the Mount Cook range, a mile-long crest, two and a third miles high.

Both Mount Sefton and Mount Cook may be seen from the Hermitage Terrace, resort area and the National Park Headquarters. Mount Sefton rears across the valley from Mount Cook with the Hooker and Mueller glaciers between, and it is a moot point which mountain takes pride of place when viewed from the Hermitage.

According to Maori legend, all the major peaks of this area are named after, or are actually petrified members of, the Arai-te-uru canoe which was one of two canoes returning from legendary Hawaiki to New Zealand carrying cargo of kumara or sweet potato and other seeds.

Rampaging north-easterly storms interrupted unloading operations on the east coast of the North Island, and the canoe was driven south-west before mountainous seas towards the bulge of Banks Peninsula.

The story of Mt Sefton [1BeI and the Burnelt Range [23e1 presented here give a comprehensive picture of life in the high mountains of New Zealand's South Island.

The other two stamps in the issue feature Mitre Peak [6cl, goal of travellers who walk the most wonderful walk in the world along the Milford Track and Mt Ngauruhoe [8el sacred Maori gift to the people of the nation.

Aucklander Don Hatcher was graphic designer for the issue.

The stamps were printed by photogravure process in five colours by Joh Enschede en Zonen, of Holland.

The perforated stamp measures 31.5 x 34.8mm and the image 27.5 x 30.Bmm.

This danger was avoided, but further south two men were swept overboard and some of the valuable cargo was lost as well.

The cargo, round gourds and baskets of seed kumara, was washed ashore at Moeraki Beach, south of Oamaru, and can be seen to this day, turned into the large round boulders which lie on that beach. One of the drowned men was turned into a rock at the mouth of the Waitaki River.

The canoe, waterlogged and near to

It was finally re-named "Sefton" by one of the most glittering personalities in New Zealand's history - Sir Julius von

remains form the eef of rocks which there juts out into sea. All but the "sailing master got ashor~ through the surf.

Haast, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. - who named it

foundering,), s ru~aground by the crew at a place now lied Sha~Point, and its

~ The survivors continued their adven-

tures on land - a land hostil"e with ogres so they had to journey only under cover of dark ness.

One night as they were moving rapidly around gathering wood and water. they were overtaken by the dawn and the

for William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of Canterbury, in November

1860.

Men have looked upon high mount· ains as a challenge. something to conquer.

a reaper-and·binder when crossing the

So it was with Cook and Sellon. In late 1894, neWS reached New Zealand that E.A. Fitzgerald, an English climber of

successful.

some renown, was coming out with the Swiss guide, Zurbriggen, to climb Mount

Cook and Mount Sellon.

ogres.

The crew were turned into mountains

and rocks by the ogres, and the wood and waterbags turned into forests and beds of

kelp.

Among the crew was Maunga Atua.

This is probably the most thrilling and epic of the legends associated with e origins of the mountains of the

S~thern Alps.

1 It can also be claimed that the'park saw the birth of skiing in New Zealand.

In 1893, Marmaduke Dixon, Guy Man· nering and T.C. Fyfe used blades from

This promoted a spurt of activity by othe\ climbers, particularly attempts on Mount Cook, the highest point in Aus· tralasia. On Christmas Day, 1894, the

Grand Plateau and found them most It was, however, not until the late

1920's and 1930's that skiing became a popular winter sport; yet there is still

only one official skiing ground in the park. This is a strange paradox for an area which has greater snowfields than any other comparable area in the world outside the polar and Himalayan regions.

The problem - one of access - has partially been-circumvented WIth the ---:('

summit was conquered in a brilliant ascent by a difficult route which was not repeated for 61 years.

development of the ski-plane.

Disappointed, Fitzgerald made no attempt on Mount Cook. Zurbriggen did. making the second and first solo ascent by a ridge which now bears his

national figure, first landed on the snow·

fields of the upper Tasman Glacier in 1955 in a plane fitted with skis of his own design and make. after taking off from a

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conventional aerodrome.

Together they were the fi rst to

Pi9neer of this relatively new feature

of the park, Harry

Wi~ley,

a well known

climb Mount Sefton.

Mount Sellon has been climbed many times from the west but the first ascent

of the south ridge was made from the Mueller Glacier in 1914 by Otto Frind and Conrad Kain on a route not since repeated.

Kakiroa.siay.~ beside the"i:ano~rai.

te·uru while ~orak'i exr!ifre,n'he inland country at night.

On One of his forays,

'Aoraki was o~ertaken by the da)light • before he could return to the canoe and was turned into Mount Cook.

Distressed, Kakiroa set off to look for

Probably the most exacting climb was

first made by three Christchurch climbers G. Harrow, 8. 8arley and F. Edwards, in 1953. The final part of their climb was more or less straight up the east face of the mountain.

The mountains of the Mount Cook

h~.---!!!l£.u~ed on a~~~e in~ sight of his friend, but when he was near" he felt himself being turned into stone

ground for many alpine climbers includ·

with the coming of daylight.

Tensing, first conquered Mount Everest

In his grief at being separated from

his friend, he stretched out his neck as far as he could in order to get a little nearer his friend. That is why Kakiroa or Sefton is overhanging.

Maunga Atua or Kakiroa, the Maori names, certainly seem more romantic than later names given by European explorers.

Sellon was first named "Stokes" by John Turnbull Thomson, Chief Surveyor for the province of Otago from 1857, after the captain of the survey ship HMS Acheron.

ti,2nal Park have I'>rovidep a trailli ing Sir Edmund Hillary who, with Sherpa in 1953.

But the Park ser:ves a much wider public than the mountaineer. Hundreds of thousands of visitors have relaxed, walked and skied on the alpine parklands and on the great Tasman Glacier. The Southern Alps, their heart centred on The Hermi· tage and Mount Cook region, have be-' come known to people all over the wodd.

So also have New Zealand guides like the Graham brothers, Vie Williams, Mick Bowie and Harry Ayres, who led generations of visitors on climbs and excur sions.

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Landings are now commonplace on the upper snow fields of the Tasman.

Murchison. Mueller and Douglas glaciers _ the last named is on Mount Sefton -

as well as-tn the Sealy and the Grand Piateaus. As a result, ski mquntaineering and ski/touring have grown in popularity in recent ¥ears.

Main focus for visitors arriving at

Mount Cook National Park is, of course, the Helmitage Terrace. In ali ways, it is the centre of aetivities, highly accessible and commanding views of superb alpine scenery.

And for travellers from all over the world who pause in Mount Cook Nation.al Park the ice·encrusted peaks, including Mount Sefton - or the petrified Kakiroa - will continue to exert a special fascin· ation and challenge.

There can be no better tribute to it than that voiced in an ancient Mao~

proverb:"

-""Mehemea

ka tuoho ahau

,me maunga tei tei" - tf I should bow my h~, lel'it--be. to a high mountain.

Mount Sellon, Maunga Al-ua - Moun· tain of the Gods - certainly compels one to make such a gesture.

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climate. Among those ho remained was young Andrew Burnett working on one of the ne. I established runs.

ari'e eve

"n9 i 1864 B rnett told his wife- atherine, there was a block of country between the ;rasman and Jollie Rivers, at the base of New Zealand's hest mountain, Mount Coo et to

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he urnetr<"Range, now known as the Burnett Mountains, overlooks

the hig sheellland of llifackenzie Country i'l..the :l.outh Island. aver these plains, where 'fVinter frosts reach

-20 o C and summer ,temperatures soar to over 3i.8 0 C, came Maori food gatherers, sheep stealers and a Se ttish pioneer who built New Zealand's highest sheep station and founded a dynasty.

By Post Office Reporter Gi/lian E.M Shadbolt

,;-"take It . up, .. sh e sal'd . .. Let's

"It s a rugged place and it would be lonely for you up there."

"Let's take it up," his wife insisted.

The land they claimed together with George McRae straddles ranges mountaineers later named after Burnett - it became known as Mount Cook station one of New Zealand's largest high country sheep runs. McRae declaring the land unworkable, sold his share to his partner in 1867, and it is still associated with the Burnett,family.

The Burnett Range, named after Scot-

tish pioneer, Andrew Burnett, features on the 23c stamp of the mountain scenes issue.

Long before Andrew Burnett laid claim to the impossible range over which he carved his station. Maori food gatherers discovered the plains below. They

travelled there in summer to collect birds and hunt moa and left their traces in rock drawings and cooking ovens.

Their journey into those plains was not always peaceful, however. The first European settlers found two circles of skeletons, a circle of larger skeletons enclosing smaller ones where, apparently, a party had been attacked and overwhelmed while trying to defend their women and children.

Possibly it was from the Maori that Mackenzie heard of the plain country that was to bear his name. He used it as a haven for sheep which he gathered from lowland stations and drove over high mountain barriers, with the h'elp of his dog.

Like other runholders, Burnett found himself in magnificiently, beautiful country rivalling in scenic satisfaction Swiss alpine views. On the flats he found evidence of an earlier habitation and the bones of the giant dinornis, or moa bird.

John McHutcheson, first settler in the l\I\cKenzie Country, in fact, reported that he found so many heaps of moa bones that "when exploring some new region or secluded valley. all unconsciously keeping my weather eye open, if happily I might discover a live specimen."

Examination of the contents of middens proved the moa was plentiful when man first went to the Mackenzie Cou try_ and that even after the extermination of these giant birds Maoris continued ;s;::u'"''''' ......~ mer excursions into the countr. ey went on long after Europea set-tfe",=~,.... of the area.

Mackenzie was convicted of sheep stealing in Timaru i 1B55 and exiled ~ ......_fr.om the la.na which his country en re to pioneer and develop.

Descendents of those early pion~rs have erected memorials to Mackenzie and his dog, discoverer of their fruitful valleys, but his story remains one 0 isil~usionment and despair.

It w{ll,.Of particular concern to a man called Rhodes over whose property shee fo Mackenzie Country runs had to pass in taking a direct route.

This combination of factors almost cost a man named Fraser his run.

After three months of driving sheep from Nelson he was on his time limit when he approached Rhodes' run. Seeing the telltale cloud of dirt, Rhodes saddled his horse muttering: "If there's any scab amongst those sheep, they won't pass through this run."

The warmth of pioneer homes i.n the Mackenzie Country contrasted with the coldness of the icy atmosphere outside.

Cooking was done in the open fire fed with huge totara logs dragged down from the hillside - evidence of a once higher timber line than the current 3,500 feet.

The sheep were wide-spread with two men in charge. One rode to meet Rhodes.

John McHutcheson describes the loneliness he and his wife experienced: "Our isolation was complete. Situated in the midst of wilderness and desolation, our surroundings were grand in the extreme

"Where have those sheep come from?" called Rhodes.

"No comprehend," came the reply, and, as Rhodes tried to obtain information, the sheep disappeared into the west.

It was the arrival of Nicolo Radove from Palermo, Sicily, to the Mackenzie Country where he settled to become one of its best known and much loved characters.

There is no record of how Burnett got his sheep to Mount Cook station but other settlers seeking to prevent "clean" sheep from becoming contaminated on "scaby" runs took inland crossings over previously unexplored ranges. They set fire to tangled scrub and tussock to clear the way ahead.

One settler describing such a fire said: "The wind was favourable and by lighting fires at intervals for about a couple of miles, the whole line caught, and a hot, roaring belt of fire blazed up the hillside, hissing, crackling and as 'C' declared, absolutely screaming human screams as the thick untouched jungle of scrub of years withered and twisted in the flames."

However he achieved it, Andrew Burnett declared his run stocked with sheep on March 13, 1865 and his first Merino wool clip was offered for sale in 1886.

His stock returns showed between 5,200 and 8,000 sheep a few years later. Mt Cook Merino wool still brings high prices at annual sales.

With the help of Catherine, Andrew Burnett built his first house. It was of 18 inch thick cob walls and thatch, on the south side of a hill where the full force of the howling nor-wester was broken. I t had only two rooms, one with a large fire place which had many a roaring fire.

but somewhat overpowering in their silent loveliness - forty or fifty miles t" om human habitation."

Loneliness defeated the English and they sold their runs to Scotsmen. T.O. Burnett - Andrew's third son who inherited Mt Cook run reported: "From 1865 to 1895 probably three-fifths of the Mackenzie population could claim Gaelic as mother-tongue; whole mustering gangs were Highland born; most of the permanent shepherds were the same. Even towards the end of this period, when the Colonial-born began to make their presence felt, the sheep following class of the latter were mostly of Highland descent".

Andrew Burnett was a Crown tenant for 56 years. He saw a country change from primeval wilderness to the last word in modern conditions.

He died at the age of 90 having handed over the management of Mt Cook to his son T.D. 8urnett in 1895.

Within a few years T.O. Burnett's originality of thought and expression made him one of the best-known public figures in the province. In 1919 he was elected a Member of Parliament.

He was one of the first to see the dangers of denudation of the land and his last speech in Parliament dealt with the menace of erosion. His suggestions were largely adopted by the soil conservation authorities.

When a member of Mackenzie Council "T. D ... , as he was affectionately known, worked all day on Mt Cook

station, then rode all night to some distant part of his riding to be there by daylight and inspect roads which had replaced the bullock wagon tracks of the pioneers.

In winter he still shared with his shepherds the task of snow raking [trampling tracks through the snow for Sheep) and, aided only with a mustering stick, climbed steep snow faces to rescue sheep.

He helped men on to their own stations and originated a piped water system for his district.

As an "authority on the high country "T.O." wrote historical articles for the news media and his admiration for the pioneers inspired several memorial stones in the Mackenzie Country. On one he had inscribed the legend: "Plant trees for your lives", and his family set an example by planting 500,000 on Ml Cook Station.

"T.O." gave at",'mtion to the welfare of his men and it was while searching for musterers who had become be-nighted that his horse, stumbling against a wire fence in the darkness, fell with him.

That fall, in 1924, started an illness which partially and for long periods, wholly incapacitated him for the next 18 years.

"T.O:' died at Mt Cook station on November 30. 1941, and was buried on Rock Etam where the Tasman River swirls round the bluff 500 feet below the grave of this "child of the misty gorges" as he sometimes described himself.

Today Mt Cook Station is in the hands of "T.D.'s" son Donald, and his sister, Mrs R. St Barbe Baker, whose husband, a world authority on aforestation, is known'as "The Man of the Trees" .

Isolation has, to some extent, given way in the face of modern transportation and communications but Mt Cook Station, in the foothills of the Burnett Range and the snowy, rugged backbone of the South Island, will always remain as it has been in the past, an oasis at the end of a long lonely road.

historical document leadsto first NATIONAL

DAY

He returned to the Bay of Islands on January 29, 1840, and the following day read his orders and commission to a mix· ed congregation at the missionary church.

They expressed the wish that the property be restored as near as possible to its state in 1840 with one room devoted to housing historic relics.

Future action depended on the decis· ion of the chiefs, upon whose "free and intelligent" consent the government and Hobson himself were most sincerely determined_ So a form of agreement was drawn up for their approval.

The gift was to be administered by a Trust Board including Government representatives and representatives of the families, both Maori and Paheka concerned with the signing of the Treaty.

8usby wrote the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi - called after the site of his house - and the missionary, Henry Williams, translated it into Maori, Briefly, it guaranteed to the chiefs and people of New Zealand the protection of the British Crown.

There are many clauses which the chiefs may have understood imperfectly.

A famous chief said - "The native mind cannot understand these things, they must trust the adVice of their mlssionaries_ ..

The missionary support was influenced by the fact that Hobson's orders were to govern for the benefit of the natives.

QueeN t'lizaherh /1 waS the firsl reh!Jling mOl/arch la attend lI'aitollgi Dol' ceh'· hralions

ill 1963. flert.', l\'iTiI her bushOl/cl. II,e DI/ke of Eclil/hl/~~"

she takes the salute all ,ltot occasion.

QU(,£'11 1:'Ii:ahl'th 11 again lOok t!le sa/u(' wl1el1 h'aitollgi Dol' hc'come YC\t' /caland Day on Fcbruorr is.

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beginning, on two levels, was celebrated on New Zealand's first National Day, February 6, and

commemorated by the New Zealand Day special stamp issue on Febru* ary 5.

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the northern chiefs on February 6, 1840.

I f, in the early years, the Crown was not always seen to have performed its side of the bargain to the letter, it Struggled manfully to keep to the spmt.

As an instrument the Treaty did not die.

making New Zealand a British colony, by the northern Maori ch iets

It was signed in good faith, and the honourable intentions of the signatories brought the agreement itself to honour.

It is something shared by all New Zealanders.

Captain

Hobson,

in

command

of

H.M.S. Rattlesnake, was first sent to New Zealand by the Governor of New South Wales to calm tribal disturbances reported by the British Resident, James Busby.

Hobson's appreciation of the situat· ion in New Zealand and his concern that guns, alcohol and diseases which had des· troyed half the New Zealand race had come from British penal settlements, led to his commission to return to New Zealand to gain the approval of the chiefs to Britain's annexation of the country.

The British decision was made after considerable heSitation and appeals from missionaries and chiefs alike for the protection of the British Government.

Then the Waitangi Day Act in 1960 recognised It as a national day of thanksgiving and the 1963 Amendment allowed for a public holiday in the province of Northland.

They did not allow for the pressures and misunderstandings that followed, the intransigence of settlers, or honest mistakes.

The first level dates back to February

and Captain William Hobson A.N. representing the British Government.

A flagstaff with a commemorative staff standing 112 ft was erected to mark the exact site of the signing of the Treaty.

They forgot there would be other governors and other circumstances.

6, 1840, when the Treaty of Waitangi, ~igned

Waitangi had, of course, a prominent part in the 1940 New Zealand centenary celebrations, The Maori people carved a great canoe to be housed in a whare runanga they built for the 94th anniversary and for which Lord Bledisloe had laid the foundations.

The hopes of the British Government that the Treaty would be an instrument of peace and conCIliation did not eventuate until the century was well advanced and a new spirit of goodwill between the races became eviden 1.

It was then that the Treaty, so long forgotten or overlooked by the Maori people, came into its own.

In 1931 the farm on which Busby's residence was built in 1834, was put up for sale. The then Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe and Lady Bledisloe visited the property and decided to purchase it themselves as a gift to the nation.

nlis l'o11l11lolloratin ~'.!ll sta",p

depinrhe signing oJ tht Treacr 0/ h'aitom:i H'DS is.wt'd oS part o} YCH' lea/and's cnl-

fill:

rellnial celehrorinnfi in lo.}f/ The height of official recognition of the historic celebrations was achieved when Queen ElIzabeth 1I offiCiated at the 1963 celebrations - the first reigning monarch to do so.

This year Her Majesty again officiated when Waitangi Day became New Zealand Day - a thanksgiving' day now acknowledged with a public holIday, not only in the province of Northland, but throughout the whole nation.

I t marks the second level - the beginning of a growing national consciousness in a raCially united country a country in which the decendants of native signatories to the Treaty, and Pakeha, strive together to better quality of life and ensure security all.

the the the for

current stamps

To be withdrawn June 30,1974:

STAMP ISSUES currently available by mail order from the Philatelic Bureau, Wellington, or over the counter from Philatelic Sales positions.

N.Z. Fiseals: Iset $28.00) $4, $6, $8, $10.

1970/71 Definitives: (set $5.37\1,) \l,e, 1e,

Tokelau Island Coral Iset 48c1 3e, Se, lSe, 25e.

1973 Health (set gel 4e, Se. 1973 Christmas (set 18c1 3e, Se, 1 De. 1973 Niue Christmas Iset 1ge) 4e, Se, lDe. To be withdrawn April 30,1975: Mountain Scenes (set 55c1 6e, 8e, lSe, 23e.

Commonwealth Games Iset 60e) 4e, Se, 1Dc, 18e, 23e.

• New Zealand Day (set 20cl five 4e stamps sold in se-tenant block form only.

plate numbers MOUNTAIN SCENES

6c, Se, 18e, 23e,

11111 11111 11111 11111

NEW ZEALAND 1973 CHRISTMAS 3e, Se, 1De,

11111 11111 11111

2e, 2\1,e, 3e, 4e, Se, 6e, 7e, 7\1,e, 8e, 1 De, lSe, lSe, 2De, 23e, 25e, 3De, 5De, $1, $2.

NIUE 1973 CHRISTMAS

2\1,e Overprinted: 4c.

4c,

Niue Definitives:

(set 82C) }Se, 1c, 2c.

21',e, 3e, Se, 8e, 1 De, 20e, 3De. N.Z. Fiseals overprinted Niue: (set $3.50) 50e, 51, $2.

Tokelau Definitives: (set 81 cl 1e, 2e, 3e, Se, 1De, lSe, 20e, 25e.

Government Life Insurance:

(set 24'Y:!c)

2\1,e, 3e, 4e, 15e.

Ro" Dependency:

(set 48c1 3e, 4e, Se,

Se, 1Dc, lSe. To be withdrawn March 31,1974: Lal:e Scenes Iset 55c1 6e, 8e, 18e, 23e.

1973 Commemorative (set 36c1 3e, 4e, Se, 6c, 8e, 1 De. Steam Locomotives (set 22c1 3e, 4e, Se, 1Dc (supplies of 4e & 1 De values exhausted), Franees Hodgkins (set 41el Se, 8e, 10e, 18c.

Niue Fish (set 53el 8e, 1 De, lSe, 20e.

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