NEW
ZEALAND
POST
OFFICE
PHILATELIC BULLETIN Inquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director- General. Stamps Division. G.P.O.. Wellington. N.Z.
No. 16.
26 January. 1959.
I. Marlboroulh Centennial Stamps.-
Reproductions of the three stamps Which are to be placed on sale on 2 March, 1959 to mark the centennial of the province of Marlborough appear in this issue. The 2d. value Which is green in colour depicts the careening of H.M. Bark "Endeavour" at Ship Cove; the 3d. value features the shipping ~ wool at the Wairau bar in 1857 and is coloured blue; the 8d. value featuree the salt industry at Grassmere and is coloured brown. All the etampe are of the same size and format viz., 37mm x 21mm and there are 120 to a sheet in each denomination. The sheet values are £1. £1.108'1 and £4 respectively. The stamps were designed by Messrs G.R. Bu 1 and G.R. Smith of Wellington and were PJ'inted in England by Meeere Harrison and Sons Ltd. who used the photogravure procese. Special souvenir covers sponsored by the Marlborough Centennial Committee will be available from the principal booksellers, philatelic societies and stamp dealers throughout New Zealand at a cost of 3d. each. A special datestamp will be used at the Chief Post Office, Blenheim on the first day of issue of the stamps. Persons in New Zealand who wish to have their covers cancelled with this datestamp should forward their addressed envelopes together with a remittance covering the cost of the stamps required and the servicing fee of id. per envelope to the Chi~f Postmsster,Blenhe1m in' time to reach that office not later than 25 February. The outside cover should be enfaced "Marlborough Centennial Covers". The New Zealand Post Office st8mpS Division will provide the usual first day· cover service for overseas clients whose oraers are received prior to the stamps being placed on sale. The Marlborough Centennial stamps will be withdrawn from sale at the end of May, 1959.