NEW
ZEALAND
POST
OFFICE
PHILATELIC BULLETIN Enquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director¡ General, Stamps Division, G.P.O., Wellington, N.Z.
No. 10.
2nd JULY, 1956.
I. 1956 Health Stamps.The 1956 Health stamps will be placed on sale on the 24th September, 1956.
The stamps will be issued in three values; 2d. (1td. postage + id. Health), sepia; 3d. (2d. postage + 1 d. Health), green; and 4d. (3d. postage + 1d. Health), red. The design, which is the same for all values, depicts two children picking apples in an orchard. Mr L.C. Mitchell of wellington drew the design from a photograph supplied to the Post Office by Mr J.F. Louden of Tauranga. The stamps are being produced by Messrs Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd., England, by the recessengraved process. The size of the stamps is 21mm x 25mm and there I~e 160 stamps to a sheet in each value. Souvenir covers issued by the Health Camps Federation will be available at most stationers and stores throughout the country at a cost of 1d. each. Overseas collectors and dealers ordering "Heal th" first day covers to be supplied and serviced by the Stamps Division of the New Zealand Post Office should include in their remittances the cost of the covers in addition to the servicing fee (1td. each cover). In cases where clients supply their own addressed covers, the servicing fee is reduced to 1d. each cover. Persons residing in New Zealand who wish to send covers to friends overseas are requested to prepare and despatch their own covers. The Post Office cannot accept orders for covers from New Zealand residents. As usual, post offices will be opened at th~ Maunu, Pakuranga, Otaki, Glenelg, and Roxburgh Health Camps on the first day of issue of the Health stamps. Persons in New Zealand who desire covers postmarked at these offices should forward addressed envelopes, together with a remittance to cover the cost of the stamps plus a serVicing fee of 1d. per cover, to the respective Chief Postmast~rs Whangarei, Auckland, wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.