NEW
ZEALAND
POST
OFFICE
PHILATELIC BULLETIN -0-
Inquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director - General, Stamps Division, G.P.O., Wellington, N.Z.
31 July, 1959.
No. 18.
This year's Healtt- stamp desi&ne are the first of a thematic series to feature native birds. This theme will in fUture be used for the annual Health issue, and different birde will be featured each year. Reproductions of the designe chosen for tt-is year'e stamps appear on this pa¥e. The "Tete" (Grey Teal) ie portrayed on the 3d. (2d. postage + 1d. Health) denomination end the "Poaka" (Pied stilt) on the 4<1. (3d. postage + 1d. Health) value. The stamps were printed by Meesre Harrieon and Sons Ltd., London - working drawings and essays for both designs being prepsred by the printers from material supplied by the Post Office. An innovation is the use of three-colour photogravure printing. I.
1959 Health Stamps. -
The stamps are 21mm x 37mm and the normal sized sheets comprise twelve rows of ten stamps. One plate has been used for each colour, and the plate r.umber 1 1 1, together with the firm's imprint, appears in the relative colours on the selvedge at the bottom left-hand corner. The combir.ed imprint and plate number block comprises six stamps. Sheet values, £1.10s.Od. and £2.0s.Od., respectively, are eho~n in the selvedge at the top right-hand corner. Miniature sheets of six stamr6 are again being issued. A plate number 1 1 1 appears on each Sheet, together with the inscription "Miniature sheet 1s.6d." (2s.Od.). The paper compoeition ie 50 per cent esparto and 50 per cent eUlphite.