NEW STAMP ISSUE

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 10

NEW STAMP ISSUE

Release On May 7 The New Zealand armed services will be featured in special postage stamps to be issued on May 7, the twentythird anniversary of V.E. Day. The denominations are 4c, 10c, and 28c and feature the Army, Air Force and Navy respectively. Each design depicts a present-day serviceman and equipment of his service, with an earlier serviceman and equipment In the background. They were designed by Mr L. C. Mitchell, of Wellington. The Chief Postmaster in Christchurch (Mr M. E. Wilson) said yesterday that the usual arrangements would be made for the cancellation of first-day covers. These would be cancelled with a special rubber hand stamp at all chief post offices. Alternatively, at the four main centres only, covers could be passed through a postmarking machine. In each case they would be marked “First Day of Issue.”

At all offices other than chief offices covers would be cancelled with the ordinary steel datestamps in daily use. “Persons desiring the special hand or machine cancellations should forward their addressed covers to the chief postmaster not later than May 3, enclosing remittances for the amount of postage and servicing fee of 2c for each cover,” Mr Wilson said. “The covers should enclose in an outer envelope or wrapping marked ‘covers for servicing with armed services stamps on May 7.’ Special posting boxes will be provided at the chief post office for use by local residents,” he said.