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. 26.
12 SEPTEMBER. 1962
I. Health Stamps. The 1962 Health stamps are being placed on sale on 3 October and unless supplies are exhausted earlier will be withdrawn on 31 January, 1963.
As stated in Bulletin No. 25, denominations and subjects are:-
4d.
postage + 1d. Health) Kakariki (Parakeet) postage + 1d. Health) Tieke (Saddleback)
The stamps which are illustrated here will show each bird as near as possible to its natural colour against a blue background in the 3~d. denomination and an orange in the 4d. denomination. Messrs Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., London have printed the stamps by the photogravure process. New Zealand Star paper with a consistency or 25 per cent rag, 25 per cent Birch Wood and 50 per cent Esparto has been used. Normal sheets will have 120 specimens, while miniature sheets or six stamps will also be available. A post office will be open on 3 October at each or the six permanent Health camps and a distinctive pictorial datestamp will be used at these offices on that day. The Health camps with the respective districts in parenthesis are as rollows:Maunu (Whangarei) Pakuranga (Auckland), Gisborne (Gisborne), Otaki (Wellington~, Glenelg (Christchurch), Roxburgh (Dunedin). New Zealand residents desiring to have covers cancelled with the special dates tamps should rorward their addressed envelopes to the Chief Postmaster or the district concerned. A servicing ree or 1d. per envelope is to be included in each remittance.