Series 4 new zealand philatelic bulletin no 13 1975 february

Produced by the Post Office Philatelic Bureau, Private Bag, Wanganui.

February, 1975

No. 13

Philatelie Bureau Deeentralised toWanganu; THE POST OFFICE'S decentralisation policy moved another step forward in November last year with the Philatelic Bureau's move 122 miles north to Wanganui.

The Bureau, formerly situated in Wellington, resumed activities in Wanganui on November 4.

The shift is

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line with

Government policy to transfer many activities to pro-

vincial centres.

Wanganui, chosen for the decentralisation move because it offered excellent accommodation and recruitment pros-

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A fertile, prosperous farming region with beautiful public reserves and good sport and recreation facilities, Wanganui is an attractive place to live and work.

Five of the Bureau's Well¡ ington staff of 50 accompanied the move. Mr A. J. (Snow) Murray, formerly Postmaster, Johnsonville, took Over from Arthur Anderson as Manager of the Bureau.

prosperous

provincial city with a population of over 35 000.

Situated at the mouth of

the Wanganui River, Wanganui is convenIently located geographically as a distribution centre for its wide range of

special ised industries.

The Philatelic Bureau was first established in Wellington in 1966, to meet an increasing demand for New Zealand stamps and to promote philatelic sales throughout the world.

Today there are 50 people servicing the needs of the

Bureau's many customers.

There are over 19 000 Jeposit accounts in the 3ureau's ledger system and it is growing steadily.

For. each new stamp issue, the Bureau prepares and distributes over 50 000 first daY covers and more than 25 000 orders are dispatched to stamp dealers and collectors all over the world.

The Bureau's new Manager, Mr Snow Murrav.

In addition to New Zealand issues, the Bureau handles Niue and T okelau Islands, Ross Dependency and United Nations stamp issues.

It also handles collectors packs, stamp posters and special packs for sale at overseas stamp exhibitions.

The Bureau's unaddressed first day cover service began in 1969, with the New Zealand Cook Bi-centenary stamp issue. One and a quarter million first day covers have since been prepared at the Bureau,

N.Z.Display Conquers New Fields in U.S.A. A NEW ZEALAND POST OFFICE stamp display was among those featured in an exhibition arranged by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and the World Trade Centre in Los Angeles, California in December, The display, which traces New Zealand's history in stamps, was prepared by the Post Office Display Section for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, U,S,A, More than one million people have already viewed the New Zealand feature,

It is the first time an exhibition of this kind has been offered by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service.

Smithsonian organisers report that the New Zealand presentation arouses particular interest with Americans because they see in it parallels between the history of their own country and New Zealand's.

The display is now touring the U.s.A. and will remain with the Smithsonian I nstitute until June 1977, as part of their Bi-Centennial Exhibition.

.... and now for something completely different

Pictorial Postcards

FOLLOWING THE HIGH SALES success of the New Zealand lakes pictorial postcards, the New Zealand Post Office has released another five, this time featuring New Zealand's awesome mountains.

Released in February, the postcards feature four magnified stamp views of Mt Ngauruhoe, Mt Sefton, Mitre Peak and the Burnett Range.

The fifth postcard features all four mountains.

Priced at 1Dc each and 5Dc a set, the full colour stamps lie on a black background.

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absence".

These cartoons are reproduced with thanks to Bill Wrathall, and first publishers - the New Zealand "Listener".

are described in full in the Universal monthly magazine Postal Union's "Union Postale", published in seven

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"Union Postale" also contains articles relating to postal services and recent articles include "The new management of the International Bureau," "The Post and Postmen," and "CCPS studies Technological Advances in postal services of new and developing countries during the next 10 to 20 years," It also contains news from the International Bureau and information about new postal films.

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blues of the main design. This motif was the source of the basic colour scheme.

b)I Garr~ Maher New Zealand countryside;

exciting, verdantly splendid, airy and free; all superlatives

that are true to the eye of the casual beholder. To the New

Zealand farmer and those living in the country, they are only a few of many facets to be seen.

These men live on the land.

Their wives and children know,

see and touch the land every day of their lives. It is antithesis itself, An exacting, lonely and sometimes, uncom-

fortable existence.

Way back in 1925, a hand· ful of New Zealand's countrywomen formed a Women's Division of Federated Farmers, extending a helping han'd to

women and children on the land. This year, they celebrate their 50th Anniversary and

the New Zealand Post Office released a commemorative stamp on February 5, to mark the occasion.

Vivienne Jepsen, a young mother, and lIam Art School graduate designed the stamp.

It features three simple stylised figures, a mother and twO children in light blue echoed by the pastel shades in the top half of the design. A black outline Incises the trio into the main body of the background,

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5e The figures on the land, and the background of gently rolling hills are tastefully simple, and striking, Coupled with the stamp's informal and flowing nature, is the more formal and directly symbolic badge of the Women's Division, echoing the greens and

The stamp is part of the 1975 Commemorative issue.

Other stamps in the issue are a 10c stamp featuring International Women's Year, a 3c stamp marking the 40th Anni· versary of the New Zealand Crippled Children's Society, and the lSc commemorating the centenary of the Otago Medical School.

The stamps measure 24.13mm x 40.64mm. They were printed

by Harrison and Sons Limited, of England using the litho· graphy process.

Any romantic vision of the 'pastoral idyll' is not strictly true of all country areas.

Before 1925 few knew how bad things were. Those worst affected were many of the women and children. In 1925, a Mr L. McAlpine, a Farmers Union Organiser, journeyed around the New Zealand backblocks. He noted the harsh conditions that many had to contend with and discussed the situation with farmers' wives he visited during his tour.

At a tea party for farmer's wives in Wellington, during a Farmers Union Conference, he found that many women identified with the problems he described. In fact most had gone through the same themselves.

were for the first Women's Division housekeepers makIng up the emergency house keep· ing scheme. If a wife was sick or unable to maintain the home and children, a special Division housekeeper could now be sent to take care of the home.

Realising the financial difficulties of some farmers, the early Women's Division started a community chest fund. This was to either subsidise or pay housekeepers wages. Other emergency needs could also be covered by the fund.

The great depression struck New Zealand in 1929, only four years after the foundation of the Division. The hardest years for the farming and rural community as a whole, were from 1933-1935. If things had been bad in the early "roaring twenties", then they were multiplied during the depression.

The Dominion President of that period, Mrs W. H. Ward.

O.B.E., said of these years: "Anything which affects the farmer, affects the wife and family". It was a clear simple statement that expressed not only the depression but the reason for the Women's Division

When the slump occurred, the Division's Emergency Housekeeper scheme ensured help was available.

In July 1940, dUring the Sympathy grew into action.

Second Worki War, the Women's Several of the women who had Division went on a veritable listened to McAlpine decided "fl ight of fancy", and decided to found the Women's Division. the best way to support the They didn't realise how farwar effort effectivelv was to doreaching this decision was nor nate a "Spitfire" fighter aircraft. did they really know where to In one month l5,OOO was raised. start.

The aircraft was at one stage flown in England by the son of But interest in the infant a Levin W.D. member. organisation grew. The selfless At war's end the W.D.F.F. offer of the opportunity to turned to improving the help other country women was quality of life. a drawcard.

Education, or rather the The birth process was fast. lack of, provided an incentive By 1927 they were ready to to establish bursaries for pro· grapple with the problems mising country pupils, who that affected women and child· could not otherwise afford ren on the land. higher eduction. In most rural areas education was either basic In April 1927, two unusual primary or by correspondence. advertisements appeared in the The Women's Division New Zealand press 'Housekeeper itself is simply structured. The willing to do anything' and grass roots is the branch, meet'bush-nurse with surgical and ing in rural communities each midwifery certificates'. A month. To co-ordinate their willingness 'to do anything' work they send delegates to and 'unusual qualities' were provincial executives set up at to become a necessary convenient centres. t::.ach attribute for any member. branch usually sends a But these advertisements

delegate to the annual Domi· nion Conference. Conference governs the organisatIOn, electing the Dominion Council which then carries out deCISIons made.

Branch work IS down-toearth being an actual phYSical part of particular rural communities. The Important maxim IS fellowsh ip.

Mrs Pamela L' Estrange, current Dominion Secretary, has definite Ideas about the changing role of the Division.

We have experienced a general widening of our interests and become a catalyst for Improvement of existing services. I disagree with people who say that no part of New Zealand IS Isolated in thiS day and age .

"There is still a lot of work left to do ...... Mrs L'Estrange reiterates. "We are, In fact, supporting research Into the disease leptospirOSIS. It's a disease that once contacted can recur easily. If we find out more about thiS, many a farmer could be spared the heartbreak of giving up farming completely.

"On the Parliamentary Side of the coin, we have a leglslat ional comm Ittee.

The international scene too has been embraced. New ideas are gleaned from these experiences and members are brought Into closer contact with home and abroad.

An international offIcer is appointed to maintain contact with other countries, as a source of Informat ion to branch members. Representation IS strong on several organisations; the New Zealand National Council of Women, the Pan Pacific and South· East Asian Women's Associations and the National Executives of the United Nations Associ'ation and the New Zealand Feder· ation of Young Farmers Clubs.

The Women's DiviSion of Federated Farmers is neither wholly practical, nor overly idealistic. The people have a ground level sense of practical things, tempered with an ideal based on love and concern for those in need.

Perhaps thi! best comment on the work of the Women's Division lies in their women's creed. "And may we strive to touch, and to know the great human heart common to us all, and 0 God let us not forget to b. kind".

Is and Sorceress by Post Office reporterc!Ylndrea'Pox

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uring, taunting White Island New Zealand's sacred marine volcano, lies off the Bay of Ple'nty coast, beckoning the curious with fire fingers washed in the blood of men.

Wreathed in Maori legend and shrouded in mystery, the menacing yet enticing island has led many men to untimely deaths and financial downfall.

Captain James Cook sighted the island in October1769 and named it White Island because of the dense clouds of white steam billowing up from the volcano crater. The tendency to cloak itself in mists probably suggested the name "Whakaari" to the Maoris - Whakaari meaning "that which be made visible" or "the vanishing island".

A full colour four stamp issue featuring off·shore New Zealand islands was releasedwthe N, Zealand Post ~.~ 4 1974. White fslantfwasdeP!Ctect.on the 18c stamp, GreatBarT~er .

Island,6c; Stewart Island,8cf and The Brothers, on the 236 With graphic designs by Do, Hatcher of Auckland, the stamps were printed by Joh Enschede en Zonen, of Holland, using the photo· gravure process.

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The stamps measured 31.5mm x 36.25mm. The issue will remain on sale until April 3D, 1976. .Fascinating, dangerous and hospitable only to large colonies of gannets, gulls and tems, White Island was the source of life·preserving' fire, according to Maori leg.end.

and thermal heat. The sacred fire was sent from the island through a subterranean passage to the high priest from Whakaari. The high priest's name was commemorated in Mt Ngatoro - the highest remaining point on the original cone of White Island."

John Grace recalls the most popular legend in his tribal history "Tuwharetoa". "Ngatoroirangi, high priest of the Arawa Canoe which carried the forebears of the Tuwharatoa tribe from lellendary Hawaiiki, journeyed south from the Bay of Plenty, landing place of the Arawa Canoe, claiming the land he passedthrougll._WI1~e reached the part of the mountain range now known as Tongariro, he deci<ted to cliTb it in order to__ out the surrounding country.

About four miles in circumference the island is the crater of a rhyolite volcanic mountain rising from deep water 27 miles off the coast of the Bay of Plenty, with an altitude of 86:ltt. It lies at the northern end of th8',ifaupo·~ruavolcanic zone where the ~.New.:ZlaJand's modern hydrothermillllnd volcanic activity occurs. The crater is the scene at. . thermal-~.

"8oiling poolliJlteam and gas . -·NIIIIIe of aci<{and sulphur hO'-s ~JlP some of the spectacu!* Iltllmomena concentrated within the small area.

With tWo companions he reached the summit of the range and was caught in a snow storm.- This was a "ew"and terrible experience for an imm.igrC!nt from th Opi.cal isles oftlle Pacific. In hisny, Ngatoriorangi pray )ne fire of the gods, crying to his priestess sisters on White Island. His sisters appealed to the fire demons Te Pupu and Te Hoata-personification of volcanic

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There are two legends woven around the 'origin of the burning island.

The Maori claims that White Island or Whakaari rightly belongs to his legendary ancestor, Maui. "The island rose from the deep after Maui, the paternal deity of New Zealand theogony, had first touched fire. When taking up the new element with both hands, he was so greatly tormented by the insufferable pain that he instantly dived under the water to assuage his agony and in the place where he shook the fire from his body rose "Whakaari."

"A second legend rather upsets the theory of Maui," writes Williarn Parham, author of the book, "Island Volcano".

"According to the legend, 'Motuhora' (Whale Island) and Whakaari (White Island) originated as peaks in the great Huiarau Range near Lake Waikaremoana. Jealous of each other, the mountains rushed headlong towards the ocean, leaving behind them the tracks which now form great valleys in the north of the North Island. Whakaari outstripped Motuhora and so occupies the commanding position on which it stands today."

The largest of the world's mammals, the whale, is said to have frequently passed between White Island and the mainland. The creature featured in Maori legends as a asc:uer of those marooned on the .Slilfld-a niihment.

Tapsell successfully established ownership of White Island in 1868.

This island was then signed over to his son and daughter who, in turn, sold it.

There followed many changes in ownership during which time the island became the property of New Zealand and overseas chemical synd icates who exploited the island for its sulphur and other minerals.

The shadow of serious exploitation fell over White Island in 1885, and as if in retaliation, White Island erupted violently bringing financial disaster among the chemical syndicates_ In 1886 came one of the greatest cataclysms of recent times - the Tarawera eruption. White Island was the nearest active volcano and part of the same geological system. Miners abandoned the island owing to the great upheaval and d id not return until 1898 when the memories had faded.

Death and tragedy followed.

A 32 year old fireman was burned to death when one of the large retorts, used in extracating the sulphur, burst under steam pressure.

The plant was once again deserted.

Soon after operations had started up again a colleague of the dead man mysteriously disappeared. His body was never found .

A few years later prior, to the outbreak of World War 1, a large portion of the crater fell awflt(, burying the miners camp and their jetty, killing tan men.

effort was made to develop the gypsum, ferrous oxide deposits before Buttle signed the property over to his son in 1952.

Following several scientific expeditions to the island, it appeared unlikely that mineral reserves were sufficient to warrant the estimated capital costs of mineral extraction.

The island offers great tourist potential when the cost of hel icopter and vertical take off aircraft usage reaches a commercial level.

Large bird colonies and scrub vegetation cover the lower east, west and northern slopes where the sulphur fumes are less dense. The floor of the crater is now covered in hummocks left by the mud- flow generated at the time of the crater's collapse.

But White Island remains unconquered by man.

Called "the weather vane of the Bay of Plenty", the yellowish coloured island can look enticing or menacing depending on the weather and Bay of Plenty residents say they can feel its presence even when the mists swirl around the island.

The 18c stamp captured White Island in an "enticing mood". surrounded by deep blue sea and clear blue skies.

The flat grey heart-of the turbulent crater and the ever present cloud of dense white steam hanging over the island are easily defined.

White Island had killed twelve men.

In 1936, White Island again changed flands.

Raymond Buttle preferred to see his island gazetted as a private scenic reserve. Ancient Maori customs, like mutton-birding, were banned and no

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lallon nad nsen to 2300 comprising 42 percent Scottish, 36 percent English, 15 percent Irish and four percent Australian in origin.

Systematically they were building a city. Even the place names and streets reflected the "old" and the "new" Edinbu rgh idea.

Gabriel Read's discovery of gold in 1861 assured Dunedin's supremacy in population and wealth but, with an influx of about 30,000 immigrants in 1870 including 2600 Chinese, the whole character of the settlement came under threat.

The settlers, however, had already established deep roots and their "piety, rectitude and industry" probably con路 tributed to the fact that Dunedin fast became the young country's leading manufacturing, commercial and financial centre. Inevitably, it was also pioneer centre for New Zealand's labour - movements.

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The settlers fought the land for survival and carried the bricks and mortar to build the city, but as they did so visions of old Edinburgh's reputation as a centre for higher learn路 ing floated before them.

Inspired by the theories of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the success of

It was the settlers of Otago who stimulated the Government in 1868 into passing a New Zealand University Endowment Act to provide university education for selected scholars.

hile the 'first colonisers were building setttements in New Zealand's Norlh Island, a Scottish Parliamentarian, George Rennie, was touting a dream to establish another Edinburgh in the new country.

his New Zealand Company settlements, George Rennie interested the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotlanh in the venture and they assumed responsibility for the scheme under the aegis of the New Zealand Company.

The Company surveyor selected the Ota90 Peninsula and the neighbouring Tairei and Tokomairiro Plains as best suited to these settlers of the new country.

Under Captain William Cargill, a veteran of the Peninsula War (Spain 1808). and Rev Thomas Burns. nephew of the Scottish bard, 300 new settlers sailed south 10 New Zealand in 1847 planning to establish a community where "piety, rectitude and industry" would feel at home and where its inhabitants would act as a "vigilant moral pal ice" The name they chose for their settlement was New Edinburgh but this was later changed to Dunedin, the Gaelic word for Edinburgh.

Six years later the work of pia路 neering was well in progress, the popu-

And, in turn, the Act, with an endowment of 100,000 acres, stimulated the establishment of the University of Otago the following year. The Gothic halls they built to house the university caught something of the atmosphere of that older city on the North Sea.

Edinburgh's reputation in the field of medicine remained to niggle at the minds of the early settlers and in 1873 the funds of the University were considered adequate to proceed with the founding of a medical school.

On May 4, 1875, only a year after Melbourne University's Medical School became the first in Australasia, the University of Otago Medical School accepted its first students.

Staffing setbacks and shortages of finance hampered the development of the School in its first decades but the dedication and determination of the teachers and the administration established a reputation which ensured Government recognition and support.

Depressions and wars came and went.

They had their affects but the Otago Medical School survived to become, for almost a century, the only medical school in New Zealand. It also won a special place as one of the most respected institutions in the country.

Just over 4623 students have gra路 duated from the School and many have won respect for thei r work in far flung places.

Th is year the School celebrates its centenary and hundreds of distinguished doctors from Britain, North America and Australia will home in on the Edinburgh of the Pacific for special celebrations.

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Seven honorary degrees will be conferred on distinguished medical men six of them Otago graduates - to mark the occasion. This will be held in conjunction with the Biennial Conference of the Medical Association of New Zealand, which originated at the School.

National recognition of the part the School has played in the life of New Zealanders comes in the commemorative postage stamp being released on February 5, just 11 days before the Schools' centenary celebrations.

The 18c sta""p is included in the 1975 commemorative issue.

Other stamps in the issue are a '10c stamp featuring International 'Women's Year, a five cent stamp depicting the 50th Anniversary of the Women's Division of the Federated Farmers, and a three cent stamp marking the 40th Anniversary of the New Zealand Crippled Children's Society.

The Otago Medical School stamp was designed by Allan Mitchell and measures 40,64 millimetres by 20.13 millimetres. It features the Linda -Ferguson building of the Medical School between the university campus and the northern part of the central business area of Dunedin. The building was opened in 1917.

A white panel beside the illustration features the blue, gold and red crest of the University of Otago and the legend "1975 Centenary of the Otago Medical School", Featured prominently on the crest is St Andrew's Cross of Scotland. It will forever link the University and its medical school with the Scottish adventurers who chased a dream half way round the world and founded a New Edinbu rgh on the shores of the great south sea.

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Since its discovery in 1769, New Zealand's Great Barrier Island has allowed relatively few settlers to dwell on its soil for any length of time.

It lies in profound serenity and natural beauty, an island that has lured many hopeful prospectors, only to ultimately have them leave, th rough lack of prosperity, with unfulfilled dreams. This has been the Barrier's greatest asset. An uncanny inbuilt weapon in the island's makeup has enabled it to remain very much one of those nebulous virgin islands.

Captai.n James Cook fittingly named this natural breakwater to the Hauraki Gulf when he made his discovery in the mid 18th century. Great Barrier is near enough to Auckland to preclude isolation, yet remote enough to select. Stretching length wise for 21 miles and covering an area of 110 square miles, the island lies east of New Zealand's northern North Island coast - a loose piece of land at the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, 56 miles from the mainland.

The island features on the 6 cent stamp in an issue depicting four off·shore New Zealand islands issued by the New Zealand Post Office on December 4. Other stamps in the series depict Wh ite Island. The Brothers and Stewart Island.

The stamps are 31.5 mm x 36.25 mm in size. and are orintect by the photogravure process.

Great Barrier is an island laced with character. An

element of the individualism of the pioneer is reflected even in its current population of about 300. I t's a place where some people still choose to ride horseback; where, when the construction of a wharf created so many problems, the people eventually built it themselves and where gifts of cream greet pilots of the Barrier Air Run. Recorded history of Great Barrier Island, starts with the 17th century Maori. Several hundred Maoris lived on the island at that time. It may have been as early as 1350 - shortly after the migration from Hawaiiki - that the Maori first settled on the island they called Aotea, the land like a white cloud, after the canoe wh ich brought the Chief Turi from Hawaiiki. Evidence of pa sites on the harbour's headlands still remain, but since vegetation has almost obliterated them, no one has accurately dated the earthworks.

Over the years archaeologists have discovered remains that point to a sophisticated Maori society near Fitzroy on the West Coast. Traces of kumara, growing on terraces have been found, along with large mounds. of pipi and oyster shells.

Evidence of extensive drainage works have also been discovered.

About 1650, a serious battle following invasion by avenging tribes, wiped out many of the Barrier Maoris. Fought on the island, the battle severely reduced the numbers of the Island's Maoris and since then. the Maori population on Great Barrier has steadily declined.

Although the island's high· est point, Mt Hobson is only 2038 feet, its surface is extremely rugged, with rock faces rising steeply from the sea. Settlement is restricted to scattered clusters on the outer edges of the island especially at Onawa, Oruwharo, Okupu and Trvphena, in the east and SO.l1tA, 3ttd Port Fitzroy and Ol'<iwi in the north-west.

The first sale of land to pakehas I Europeans) came about in 1838 and this wes the

Great Barner was endowed with a splendid variety of natural resources. Minerals, timbers, farm produce and fisheries created industries which flourished briefly then died. Farm· ing ultimately became and remains the staple livelihood of most of the sett lers.

Pioneers of the island built huts and Maori whares of any material at hand - using trunks of the small native nikau, rapu and punga ferns - and rushes for thatching. Most had only earth floors.

Hands, hard and eager, eventually built graded pack tracks and cart roads. The weekly cream quota was then transported by horseback and ship to the f.)ainland.

By the 1880's, there were several prosperous settlements on the island. Firewood cut. ting became the Barrier's first major industry Gangs felled great quantities of manuka and conducted it down river.

Kauri trees flourished in great abundance on some of the higher hillsides, attracting the attention of traders from Sydney who exported the timber. From these hills came much of the timber that went into the building of Auckland.

For 2/- pel message. each bird earned up to five messages '.~,hich were wntten on tissue pape,' clnd tied round the leg of the bird. They wele franked with what became the world's first ait mail stamps, issued 10 years before the first mailplane landed at St Nazaire from Paris.

Today the Barrier has passable roads. The district nurse dl ives a land rover and every two months or so, a doctor visits the island.

But it's the fantasy-like tales of past years that are the essence of the Island's magic. Days of picnics on hillsides with a maid laying out the lunch, evenings of danCing under open moonlight have all graced Great Barrier in its time.

School for the 30 odd children of the island must be a delightful place. With a name like Mulberry Grove and a location on a grassed area beside the beach at Tryphena, it's something that could so easily have come from the paJes of a story book. Children and others use the daffodil yellow school bus for transport.

Older children of the island often go to the mainland for further education, and later of course for work.

Which leaves only those Communication on the who, by choice, have made the island was bad. 8y 1862 the island their home. population of Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier's years of the oldest and largest settleadolescence are gone. The ment on the island, was sufficisland has been through its ient to warrant the opening of growing pains, has tossed and a Post Office. Financial played with different experiendifficulties were. however. ces and come out mature and numerous and it wasn't until content.

1894 when the S.S. Wai raraDa went ashore at Miner's Head It's now a place where tides with the loss of 134 lives, that are free to ebb and flow in something was done about it. hypnotic rhythm; where time The four days delay between is a space between the trees. It the disaster and the news reachis above all, an island where ing Auckland, helped to bring nature's order has through about the pigeongram. The trial and error retained masterpigeon post was started up on ship of the land.

May 14, 1897, by a Mr Parkin, a pigeon fancier from Auckland, . the first flight being between , Auckland and Okupu. This service operated until 1908 when a cable was laid between the Barrier and the mainland. l ,~ :.". '.', .r.~,' .•.••. " During these early years, the '; ~ Barrier was a busy place, with many people engaged in milling and mining and the weekly steamer to and from Auckland could not cope with all the mail requirements, especially '.~"

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Niue Cook Bi~Centenary (set 33cl 2c, 3c,

.. Post Offices opened and closed OPENED Bryant Park

Hamilton

Chartwe!l Square

Hamilton

Farm Cove

Auckland Auckland Hamilton

Rosebank

Auckland

Sunset

Rotorua

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CLOSED Cornwall

Auckland Auckland

Kawerau Mill Kinleith

Rotorua Hamilton

Kumara Railway Pakiri

Greymouth

Romahapa Spencervi lie

Dunedin Christchurch

Waitaki

Oamaru Blenheim

Auckland

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Off Shore Island Scenes 6c Se ISc 23c

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"Articles may be extracted for reprinting without fur ther permission.

AcknoWledgement to the New Zealand PhilateliC Bulletin would be appleciated",

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Waitaria Bay

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acknowledgements

NEW ZEALAND.

Air Transport (set 35cl 3c, 4c, 5c, 23c.

Awaroa

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Niue Self Government

Ross Dependency: (set 4Scl 3c, 4c, 5c, Be, 10c, ISc. To be withdrawn April 30, 1975:

Greenlane Paraonui

3c 5c 10c

3c 10c 20c

Tokelau Definitives: (set 81 cl 1c, 2c, 3c, 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, 25c.

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1975 Stamp Programme Stamp Programmf"" for 1975: 5 February: A four stamp commemorative issue. Centenary of the Otago Medical School; International Women's Year; 50th Anniversary Women's Division Federated Farmers of New Zealand Inc, 40th Anniversary of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, 2 April: A SIX stamp issue featuring Historic New Zealand Sailing ShiPS, 4 June: A four Forest Parks stamp issue featUring 6 August: A three stamp scenery.

Health issue featuring children's pets.

1 October: A three stamp Christmas Issue featuring an "Old Master" painling; stained glass church window; symbolic 26 November: Ten stamps redesrgn, plaCing the current le-10c delinitive Slamps