NEW
ZEALAND
PHILATELIC
POST
OFFICE
BULLETIN
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Inquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director-General. Postal Division. G.P.O., Wellington. N.Z No. 31.
22 May, 1964.
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Health Stamps, 1964
This year sees a continuation of the bird series and for the first time New Zealand sea birds will be featured. The stamps are illustrated here. Denominations and subjects are 3id (posta~e 2id, health id) the Tarapunga (Red-billed Gull) and 4d (Postage 3d, health 1d) the Korora (Blue Penguin). The birds will be shown as near as possible to their natural colours. The lower value stamp will show two red-billed gulls standing on a sand dune against a sea and sky background and in the other stamp a Blue Penguin and chick will be shown on a rocky coastline with a sea and sky background. The stamps will be horizontal in format and measure 25 mm x 33 mm. They are being printed by the photogravure process in sheets of 120 (10 rows of 12). The imprint of Messrs Harrison and Sons Ltd. will be shown in the bottom left-hand corner of each sheet and the plate number 1A 1A 1A 1A in the 3td denomination and 1A 1A 1A in the 4d denomination situated under the fourth stamp from the same corner. The sheet value will be shown in the top right-hand selvedge. Paper with a consistency of 50% Esparto and 50% sulphi te is being used. Miniature sheets this year will contain eight stamps in two rows of four. One sheet of each denomination will cost 5s.0d.