PHILATELIC

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 36, 18 May 1938, Page 4

PHILATELIC

NEW PENNY . STAMP * TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY The following information in connection’ with stamp issues has been received from the General Post Office, Wellington, by the Opotiki Post Office:— King George VI. Stamps

Two new plates, numbers 9 V and 10, have been used to print now stocks of the .Jd King George VI stamps. •The rid King George VI stamp will be issued not later than the Ist July, 1938. The following plates, have been used for the productions of the stamps: 3,4, 5 (booklets), 6,7, 8, 11, 12, and 13'.' The identification marks o« plates 6 t to 13 (including the £d plates) appear opposite the fourth horizontal row on both the left and the right vertical selvedges. _ The frariies of the halfpenny and penny King George VI stamps were drawn by Mr W. J.. Ccoch, °f Wellington. A new dandy-roll was used to produce the watermark in the papt er upon which the King George Y 1 stamps are. printed. Coronation Stamps

The numbers of New Zealand, Cook Islands and Niue Coronation stamps sold were as follows : Id; 38,455,554 New Zealand, 737,572 Cook Islands, 730,429 Niue. 2!Jd: 1,564,496 New Zealand, 569,108 Cook Islands, 575,28 S Niue. 6d: 2,079,611 New Zealand, 541,657 Cook Islands, 547,000 Niue. Health Stamps The number of 1937 Health stamps sold was 897,035. Niue and Cook Island's Stamps “First-day” covers bearing the new Is, 2s and 3s stamps will not reach New Zealand from Rarotonga and Niue until the Ist and sth June respectively. The vignette of the Cook Islands and Niue stamps of the Is denomination was reproduced from a photograph by Bertram Park, London. New Zealand Pictorial Stamps The latest supplies of the 4xl Pictorial stamps, which were issued early in April, have been printed from two new plates. Two different printings were made, one from the old centre plate and a- new border plate with the

identification under the ninth stamp in the last row, and the other from' new plates for both the , centre and the border showing two plate numbers. The plate number (2) for the centre plate appears under the second stamp in the last row, and the border plate number (2A) is printed - under the pin tlx. slainp in the last- row.