This article, originally published in the “New Zealand Stamp Collector” (June 1973), gives an interesting history of the former Wellington Post Office, as it was about to be pulled down.
Published by kind permission of the author.
The Pacific ocean is the largest body of water in the world. The total area of the Pacific Ocean is estimated at 163,000,000 km or nearly 40 per cent of the whole water extent of the world. 
This article originally appeared in the “New Zealand Stamp Collector”, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand. It is republished by kind permission of the Society.Bananas and Earthquakes in Jamaica
Given the cost of bananas in Australia at present, I was fascinated by this recently acquired Jamaican postcard. It was written in early 1925 and addressed to a young man in New Zealand. It bears an interesting slogan: COME TO JAMAICA: THE IDEAL TOURIST RESORT.
Robin M Startup, RDP, FRPSNZ, FRPSL
Such sad news from Jenny and Norman Banfield in New Zealand that Robin Startup died on 16th February – he had been unwell for some time. Robin was without any doubt one of the outstanding scholars of New Zealand philately and especially of New Zealand postal history; his knowledge and understanding was profound. He was the author, or occasionally joint author, of over sixty books or monographs and over ninety other manuscripts or limited published works.
Philately in the Doldrums? (1947)
This article was published in the Pacific Stamp Review, a New Zealand monthly stamp magazine, in February 1947. The article is by a generalist collector, who is concerned about the future of the state of philately in the post War period its future thematic implications.
We publish this fine postcard by kind permission of the photographer. We hope to publish more of his work in the near future…Picture Perfect: New Zealand 1898-1908
The first pictorial definitive series from a major British colony, issued by New Zealand in 1898, had two different printers, three different platemakers and four different papers, not to mention famous errors and perforation varieties. Was this the ultimate turn-of-the-century collectable?
New Zealand Mail from the UK in the 1880s
In the 1880s, postal communication between New Zealand and United Kingdom was principally by way of San Francisco, using the U.S.S. Co. steamers, and the direct route using the New Zealand Shipping Co., and Shaw Savill and Albion Royal Mail steamers.
This article by H. Smyth, Editor of the Australian Stamp Journal was originally published in the English philatelic journal, The Postage Stamp, 4 April, 1914.
Many thanks to Alan Tunnicliffe for this photograph of a typical New Zealand “postie” on his bike.
It is a truism that political considerations have affected every stamp issuing country, some more than others.
Some of the most interesting discoveries are made by accident. It was while browsing in the “New Zealand Mail” for 1874 that I first came across the Auckland Islands pigeon post…
Ophir is a small settlement in Central Otago, New Zealand, located between Alexandra and Ranfurly close to the east bank of the Manuherikia River. 
The Christchurch Philatelic Society has its origins back in 1910 with a group of Christchurch school boys who started a group based on the Chum’s Society of Stamp Collectors. 
We would like to thank Alan Tunnicliffe of Christchurch, New Zealand for sending these two fine photographs of New Zealand postal vans.
This image is the first photograph in a series showing worldwide aircraft. 
One of the fascinating aspects of philately is how one decides what they will collect. I guess the reasons are many and varied. When it comes to stamps, it is often the fact that you live or were born it that particular country.
The Study Circle was founded in Great Britain in 1962 for collectors of the stamps and postal history of the smaller Pacific islands and the Indian Ocean islands of Christmas and Cocos (Keeling).
