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May 2021

5th May 2021       Game Bird Habitat Page Four - 2020 - 2029.      (New Issue)       (Kim) 
             More items from the NZ Game Bird 2021 issue can be found on this page.

5th May 2021        Wildlife - Game Bird Habitat.     (New Issue)      (Kim)
             The 2021 Game Bird $10 license stamp has been added to our collection.

5th May 2021        Chinese New Year.    (New Issue)      (Kim)
            The 2021 issue has been added to our main Chinese New Year collection.

5th May 2021        2021 Pride.        (New Issue)        (Arie)
            2021 Pride stamp celebrates the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Takatāpui, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTTQIA+) community, and allies, and all other Rainbow identities not covered in this acronym, identities still to be named, and the infinite number of identities that are possible to us as human beings.
5th May 2021        2021 Year Of The Ox.        (New Issue)        (Arie)
5th May 2021        Holiday At Home.       (New Issue)        (Arie)
5th May 2021        2021 Queen Elizabeth II 95th Birthday.        (New Issue)
            Celebrating the 95th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of New Zealand.            (Arie)

August 2020.

15th July 2020       2020 Maori Language Week.       (New Issue)
           Te Wiki o te Reo Maori - Maori Language Week. Four important words are celebrated with four colourful stamps.        (Allan)

July 2020.

28th July 2020       2020 - Peter McIntyre's World War Two.       (New Issue)
           Peter McIntyre was appointed New Zealand’s official war artist by Major General Bernard Freyberg. Here we view some of his work.       (Asami)

6th July 2020          2020 Kiwi Cakes & Bakes.       (New Issue)
           During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic we look at some famous New Zealand treats.   (Kim)

June 2020.
3rd June 2020         2020 Nga Hau e Wha - The Four Winds.     (New Issue.)
           Four designed depicting the four winds - North, South, East & West.      (Anne)

May 2020.
14th May 2020        2020  New Zealand Bear Hunt.     (New Issue.)
           Teddy Bears. New Zealanders creating a magical experience for kids (and big kids) during a stressful time.     (Asami)

12th May 2020        1900 Boer War Thematic Collection.       (New Items)
          I have added an imperf example of this stamp from Christchurch, another stamp from Whangarei and a stamp cancelled "Loose Mail."   (Allan)

4th May 2020          1882 The Second Side-Faced Issue - Advert Stamps.   (New Page)
          Some of us have been interested in the adverts of the reverse of the 1882 Second Side-Faced Issue. I've found a collection of images of these in our image files and wondered about doing a page. Some research showed that these adverts were also used on higher values as well. The purpose of this page is not a complete collection but just show the variety of adverts on all values of this issue.     (Kim)

4th May 2020          Special Posts.      (New Addition)
          The post called 1900 Wellington Flag has been added as our 21st addition to our special hall of fame. This is the second time this page has been suggested for consideration and voting. It contains some interesting and perhaps rare items.   (Allan)

2nd May 2020         1900 Boer War Thematic Collection.     (New Items)
         The famous Wellington Flag, a special machine cancellation used only in Wellington. At the same time, we added a block of 14 stamps carrying an Onehunga cancel.    (Allan)

April 2020.
18th April 2020       Game Bird Habitat Page Three - 2010 - 2019.    (New Item)
         I have added a copy of the 2012 Game Bird Miniature Sheet.     (Mary)

18th April 2020      2010 ANZAC III - Remembrance.      (Page Rebuild)
         We have decided to rebuild this page with better images, larger captions and technical information. We have also included two images of the special miniature sheet booklet.   (Allan)

18th April 2020      2009 ANZAC II - Comrades in Arms.    (Page Rebuild)
         We have decided to rebuild this page with better images, larger captions and technical information. We have also included two images of the special miniature sheet booklet.   (Allan)

17th April 2020      2001 Hong Kong Stamp Exhibition.       (New Post)
        To celebrate this important exhibition, New Zealand Post issued a Threatened Birds exhibition miniature sheet and souvenir envelope.       (Mary)

16th April 2020     2001 Queen Elizabeth II - Royal Visits.       (New Post)
        Six stamps covering five decades of royal visits to New Zealand.     (Mary)

14th April 2020     100 Years of Moving the Mail.       (New Post)
       This sheetlet of ten stamps presented ten different chapters of our postal history, ranging from the earliest modes of mail transportation to our most recent and fastest-growing form of communication, electronic mail.      (Allan)

12th April 2020      2002 - Architectural Heritage.      (New Post)
        We have discovered three issues that were forgotten so will be doing them now. The first is this issue of six stamps celebrating six significant New Zealand buildings.  (Kim)

12th April 2020      New Zealand Wine Post - Overview.    (Page Rebuild)
        Because of these two issues below, we decide to do some rebuilding on the Summary Page as well. The Antarctica Post stamps have been added to this page too. (Still working on captions etc of this section.)  (Asami)

11th April 2020       Page Four - New Zealand Wine Post   2020 - 2029.     (New Issue)
        2020 NZ Wine Post - Women in Aviation. When we found this new stamp from the Wine Post we had to quickly make changes to our Wine Post collection by starting this new page.  (Mary)

9th April 2020         Page Two - Antarctica Post - 1010 - 1019.      (New Issue)
        2019 Antarctica Post - Captain Scotts Hut. We thought the Antarctica Post stamps had been dropped when none appeared during 2019 but suddenly we found them today.  (Mary) 

1st April 2020         Captian Cook on Stamps of New Zealand.   (New Label)
        Using our thematic collection on Captain Cook, we have added this new label to all stamps issues that have one or more stamps featuring explorer Captain Cook. This exercise led to us finding and fixing lots of errors in our earlier posts.     (Asami)

March 2020.
31st Mar 2020         Wildlife - Game Bird Habitat.    (New Issues)
         We are rebuilding our Game Bird collection by creating a summary page above and four separate pages to display any extra items we have regarding each stamp. These pages will include First Day Covers and Miniature Sheets and Promotion Brochures. There are many more items we will include if we find them but for now, you can view all we have.   (Asami & Mary)
              Game Bird Habitat Page One - 1994 - 1999.                          Game Bird Habitat Page Two - 2000 - 2009.


              Game Bird Habitat Page Three - 2010 - 2019.                         Game Bird Habitat Page Four - 2020 - 2029.

24th Mar 2020        NZ2020 International Stamp Exhibition Part Two.  (New Issue)
         Miniature sheets and covers to be sold at this exhibition.   (Asami)

23rd Mar 2020       NZ2020 International Stamp Exhibition Part One.    (New Page)
         A page showing the CALs and collector items issued to promote this Exhibition.  (Asami)

21th Mar 2020        2009 Giants of New Zealand.       (Page Make-over)
         I went into this page to replace the First Day Cover with a better image and ended up doing quite a make-over, adding more images, adding Technical Information and giving the page a general clean-up.    (Mary & Allan)

15th Mar 2020        1900 Boer War Thematic Collection.       (New Items)
         We have added 4 more items to this collection taking it to a total of 74 items.    (Anne)

10th Mar 2020        Main Index.       Index Twelve - 2020 - 2024.       (Admin)
         Now we have rolled into 2020 our we need a new index page to cover the years 2020 - 2024. This page has been created with links to any 2020 issues we've already featured and a link to this new page was added into our Main Index complete with a picture link too. (Asami & Allan)

2nd Mar 2020       2019 Te Araroa Trail.       (New Issue)
         Six stamps featuring the Te Araroa Trail, New Zealand’s long walking trail, a 3,000-kilometre tramping route running from Cape Reinga at the top of the North Island, to Bluff at the bottom of the South Island.      (Asami)

February 2020.
26th Feb 2020.      Royal Visit 2019.        (New Issue)
          On 17 November 2019, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of New Zealand, began a six-day tour of Aotearoa with his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.   (Allan)

25th Feb  2020.     2019 Rock Legends.        (New Issue).
          The Rock Legends stamp sheet delivers a tongue-in-cheek take on some of New Zealand’s quirkier rock formations.      (Asami)

24th Feb 2020.      2019 Christmas Issue.     (New Issue)
          Stamps featured native New Zealand flora and fauna alongside the traditional Nativity story.    (Allan)

13th Feb 2020.      2020 Kakariki - New Zealand Parakeets.     (New Issue)
          An issue featuring five native parakeets of New Zealand.     (Allan)

10th Feb 2020.     2020 Game Bird Habitat.       (New Issue)
         The annual $10 stamp for hunting to be attached to a valid hunting licence. These stamps are also sold to collectors as well. Proceeds from sales going towards the establishment and protection of habitat for game birds.     (Mary)

January 2020.
25th Jan 2020       2020 Native Daphne Moths.       (New Issue.)
         Six types of Daphne moth found in New Zealand. What is so different about this issue is that each stamp only shows half the moth with the other half supposedly being identical.  (Asami)

20th Jan 2020       2008/2020 The Year of the Rat.     (New Issue)
          The annual Chinese New Year issue, featuring two years 2008 & 2020, The Year of the Rat. The four stamps and miniature sheet were also added to our Chinese New Year Collection(Asami)

December 2019.
27th Dec 2019,      2019 200th Anniversary of First Grapes Planted.     (New Issue)
         Another issue from New Zealand WinePost marking 200 years since missionary Samuel Marsden planted the first grapevines in New Zealand.    (Mary)

November 2019.
5th Nov 2019.        2019 Tuia 250: Michel Tuffery's Artistic Journey of Discovery.  (New Issue)
         Through artworks by New Zealand painter Michel Tuffery, this stamp issue illuminates the role of arioi priest and navigator Tupaia in guiding Lieutenant James Cook and the Endeavour from Tahiti to Aotearoa in 1769.      (Allan)

October 2019.
6th Oct 2019.         Sir Edmund Hillary - A Thematic Collect.    (New Post)
         A collection of the stamps showing this famous New Zealander.     (Kim)

September 2019.
22nd Sept 2019      2019  Scenic Definitives.        (New Issue)
        Three gummed and 2 adhesive stamps to meet a rise in postal rates.   (Kim)

19th Sept  2019      2019 All Blacks - The Silver Fern.     (New Issue)
        An issue to mark the opening of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. These six stamps trace the history of the silver fern that appears on every All Black jersey.    (Mary)

14th Sept  2019.     2003 Conquest Of Everest.         (New Post)
       "Well George, we knocked the bastard off!" With those now-famous words, New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary announced the conquest of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. 50 years later.   (Allan)

10th Sept  2019.     Health Stamps - Part One.        (Corrections)
         We discovered many of the links on and directed to this page were broken. I spent the last few days re-coding them so they work again.   (Asami)

10th Sept 2019.      2002 Native Fungi.          (New Post)
         Six very colourful stamps showing six native New Zealand Fungi.     (Allan)

7th Sept 2019.        2000 Threatened Birds.        (New Post)
         This issue looks at threatened birds of New Zealand and two stamps were part of a Joint Issue with France.    (Anne)

6th Sept 2019.        2019 Ross Dependency - Cape Adare.        (New Issue)
         One of the harshest environments on Earth, Cape Adare is located 780km north of Scott Base. It was here, in 1894, that humans first set foot on the Antarctic mainland, and who in 1899 built the first Antarctic base.       (Mary)

August 2019.
29th Aug.              2019 Moon Landing 50 Years.       (New Post)
         A thematic collection showing 12 stamps from three different issues by three different postal administrations.      (Kim)

July 2019.
27th July.              Resene Stamps - Part Three.        (New Issue)
         We have added the ten stamps from the 2019 Booklet of Resene Stamps.   (Kim)

24th July.              2019 Kupe - The Great Navigator.      (New Issue)
         I have not published a post on this issue as I was struggling to get information on it. Now I have completed it - eight colourful stamps telling this important Maori legend.    (Allan) 

23rd July.              Rocket Lab.      (New Post)
         I discovered a small group of 7 covers, one for each Rocket Lab mission. This gave me an idea of starting a thematic collection on the company Rocket Lab.    (Allan)

3rd July.                1994 Maori Myths & Legends.       (New Items)
         I have added a First Day Cover and three photos of the Presentation Pack for this issue. (Allan)

1st July 2019        2000 On the Road - Classic Cars.        (New Post)
         I've held off doing this post for a long time in the hope more images of the collectible items would turn up. Finally, I had to close this gap in our collection.  (Allan)  

June 2019.
25th June.             2003 Scenic Waterways.        (New Post)
         Another issue from the scenic stamp series, this time five stamps are featuring waterways from various parts of New Zealand.    (Mary)

24th June.             2019  Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - 2008.      (New Issue)
          Five stamps showing important events from the life of this famous man.   (Anne)              

23rd June.            New Zealand Wine Post 2010 - 2019       (New Issue)
         The three stamps of the 2019 Wine Post Birds issue have been added to our Wine Post collection. We have also start preparing for adding the 4th Wine Post page taking us through the next 10 years 2020 - 2029.      (Mary)

20th June.             2019  Colin McCahon 1919 - 1987.           (New Issue)
         Five stamps showing another five paintings from this icon New Zealand artist.  (Mary) 

17th June.             1949 3d HMS Vanguard.        (New Item)
           I have added a mint copy of the personalized stamp issued for Mowbray Collectables Ltd to promote their stamp trading business.       (Allan)

14th June.             1900 Boer WarThamatic Collection.           (New Item)
           I added another of these stamps to this collection, these time with the cancel of Papakura, a suburb of Auckland.     (Allan)

13th June.             Resene Stamps - Part Three (2010 - 2018)    (New Issue)
          A booklet of 10 stamps issued in 2018 has been added to our Resene Stamps collection.  (Allan)

8th June.               Kupe and the First Maori Settlers.         (New Items)
          I have added seven stamps from the 2019 Kupe - The Great Navigator to help illustrate this story. I have not found any reliable captions on this new issue yet so I have just placed them where I think they fit best in my story. Once I learn more I might need to change them again.  (Allan)

6th June.               New Zealand Wine Post 2010 - 2019       (New Items)
          Colour proofs for a 2019 Birds Issue. Not much information is known about this yet.   (Mary)

4th June 2019.    Aviation in the Ross Dependency.     (New Post)
         A thematic collection featuring all the stamps showing aviation in Antarctica.   (Asami)

May 2019.
31st May 2019.    1906 Christchurch Exhibition.         (New Items)
         A reader has given us links to three used examples of the 1d - Claret of which there are only 7 known copies. One item is a cover with three of these rare stamps. Truly an amazing find, even if it is only an image of the real item.     (Allan)

16th May 2019.    New Zealand Wine Post 2010 - 2019.           (New Issue)      
         2018 Dunedin Wine and Food Festival. I've finally collected all the items for this issue and so have added it to my Wine Post collection.    (Mary)

6th May 2019.      2002 Children's Book Festival Stamps.        (New Post)
         An issue of 10 stamps showing children's paintings. The results of a competition.   (Mary)