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, GP.O" No, 33.
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Wellington. N.Z February, 1965.
Plate-number and imprint blocks
The policy regardin[ the sale of plate-number and imprint has been changed and henceforth, requests for these blocks will be made on ~he following conditions: bloc~s
(i)
Each plate-number and imprint block sold is to comprise 12 stamps or more in all the values up to 1s.0d. or is to comprise six stamps or more in the values from 1s.3d. urwards.
(ii)
Not more than 20 blocks will be supplied in any one order.
2. Special Issues (except Health Stamps): period of sale
There has also 'been a change of policy regarding the periods for which special issues will remain on sale. Commencing with the Anzac st~ps, special stamp issues (except Health stamps) are to t~ kept on sale at Post Offices for varying periods according to how soon a particular issue is followed by the next; but each issue will remain on sale at the Stamps Section of the'Postal Division, General iost Office, for a period of at least nine months unless stocks are exhausted earlier. The period of sale will be notified with each issue. It is not proposed to make any change in the existing practice of keeping Health stamps on sale at Post Offices and at the Postal Division from early in AUguJt each year until the end of the rollo~ing November.