Poster Features Map And Stamps

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 21

Poster Features Map And Stamps

“The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, July 29.

Young overseas philatelists will soon get a chance to collect New Zealand stamps by the handful under a novel scheme launched by the Tourist and Publicity Department and the Post Office. The overseas information and publicity section of the department has produced a poster featuring a map of New Zealand with areas of historic, scenic and social importance marked by superimposed stamps. More than 10,000 of these posters are being sent to New Zealand Government posts overseas and will also be made available on request to philatelists and schools. With the colourful posters will go thousands of used New Zealand stamps gathered in a giant saving programme which has lasted more than two years.

Government departments and helpful letter receivers have clipped their stamps off envelopes and sent them in to the Tourist and Publicity Department where they have gradually filled up a number of cardboard boxes. No-one has any inclination

to count how many stamps there are, but the principal of the publicity section (Mr A Malcolmson) says they will be given out “by the handful.”

The large poster featuring New Zealand stamps was designed by Mr P. Scaife, an artist of the National Publicity Studios, and was produced in association with the Post Office. “We felt it would be appropriate to display the stamps before the introduction of decimal currency,” said Mr Malcolmson.

The stamps are arranged so that they have definite association with the section of the map they cover. It is planned to use the posters as centrepieces in displays and a special brochure is being printed to describe the various features of each stamp.