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Web Page of the Month

WORLD NUMBERING SYSTEM ~

à Look up latest issues from any UPU country

à View and enlarge full colour illustrations

à Search by country, or date of issue

à Find issues on a common theme (eg orchids)

à Check whether issues are genuine or bogus

à Follow links to philatelic websites of member countries and stamp administrations

This extremely useful reference site, lists all the
issues from UPU countries since January 2002.
It has been has been developed jointly by the World Association for the Development of Philately and the Universal Postal Union.
The site is located at ~

http://www.wnsstamps.ch

Items in Brief

New Canadian catalogues available ~

Stanley Gibbons Canadian catalogue, the first in the 'One Country' series, arrived in the country this month.

Printed only in black and white - loose-leaf RRP in NZ $50 binder available RRP $45

We notice from SG's website that this is available from them direct at £10 +p&p, the colour edition is £20 +p&p

The One Country catalogues for Australia and for New Zealand are still in preparation.

Unitrade Canadian Specialised, in colour, RRP in NZ $150 Unitrade's web-page lists it at CAN$40 +p&p

Both these catalogues can be ordered through KSC at members discount.

NZ Courier Post's track record called into question ~

Read the article on valuable personal documents that were sent signature required, just being left at the door. page 7 in the August issue of Consumer magazine

http://www.consumer.org.nz/newsitem.asp?docid=1583&category=News&topic=Courier%20Post%

Auckland Mail found in the Lake ~

See the article on Auckland mail that was dumped in Orakei Basin instead of being delivered.

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,212183-1-7,00.html

New Definitions ~

Philantelist - a collector who rushes all over the place gathering up every stamp he sees, in the hope that it may one day become valuable.

Arachnoleptic fit - the frantic dance performed just after you've looked at your stamp collection for the first time in six months and discovered it has become a spiders nest.

Caterpallor - the colour you turn when you find your full face queens all chewed at the edges and the remains of some green things, squashed between the pages.

Beelzebug - Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

RECENT PHILATELIC PUBLICATIONS

Maritime Disaster Mail by Norman Hogarth and Robyn Gwynn 352 pages ~ £37.50 + p&p (£7 surface)

A study of mail salvaged from maritime disasters, collisions, fires, shipwrecks, casualties of war etc

Airmail Directional Handstamps by Ian McQueen 370 pages ~ £35 +p&p (£2 surface)

A comprehensive worldwide catalogue of handstamps used on commercial airmail ~ 2600 illustrations

Both available by contacting Allan Berry, 238 Waikiekie Rd, Thames Ph: 07-868-3065 Email: apberry@wave.co.nz