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. 17.
30 April. 1959.
I. Red Cross Stamp. A reproduction of the Red Cross sta~p to be placed on sale on 3 June, 1959, appears in this issue. The stamp will sell at 4d., having a postage value of 3d. and a surcharge of id. to be credited to the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
Designed by post office artists, the stamp depicts a red cross on a white flag superimposed over twin hemispheres. The background colour of the stamp is blue. Printing was undertaken by Messrs Harrison & Sons Ltd., of London, using the photogravure process. There are 120 stamps, each 37mm x 21mm, to a Sheet, in twenty rows of six stamps. They are printed on paper comprising 50% Esparto and 50% SUlphite. The plate number "2 1A" and the printer's imprint appear together on the selvedge at the bottom lefthand corner of the sheet, and the sheet value "ÂŁ2.0s.0d." is shown on the selvedge at the top right-hand corner. The stamp will be withdravm from sale at the end of August, 1959. The New Zealand Red Cross Society is providing specially iesigned souvenir envelopes printed in four colours. These envelopes will be available thrOUghout New Zealand from stationers, stores, and from local Red Cross Committees at 2d. each. Overseas collectors and dealers requiring "Red Cross" first day covers to be supplied and serviced by the Stamps Division of the New Zealand 'Post Office should include in their rep,i ttances the cost of the covers together with the servicing fee (1 ;d. each cover). Where clients supply their own addressed covers, the servicing fee for each cover is reduced to id. The servicing of first day covers by the Stamps Division is not available to New ~ealann residents.