SPECIAL STAMP ISSUES
Six Within Year “The Press’* Special Service WELLINGTON, April 11. Six special issues of postage stamps will be made between now and March of next year. The Post Office also intends, within the next two years, to replace the current Queen Elizabeth stamps with a pictorial issue, said the Post-master-General, Mr Moohan. The first of the special issues will .be the 1958 health stamps which will be on sale in August. Experiments were being made in designs of future health stamps featuring New Zealand birds, said Mr Moohan. It was probable that such a “thematic” series would be used from next year onward. In September a 6d stamp will be issued to commemorate the' thirtieth anniversary of the first air crossing of the Tasman Sea by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Later that month a 3d stamp will be issued to mark the centennial of the City of Nelson. A set of three stamps will be on sale in November marking the centennial of the province of Hawke’s Bay and. in January. 1959, a 3d stamp will be issued to coincide with the Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree to be held in Auckland.
The centennial of the province of Marlborough will be the occasion for another issue in March, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28559, 12 April 1958, Page 14
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