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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – March 2013

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: March 2013 Generated 01-Apr-2013 06:35 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for March 2013 Total Hits 97633 Total Files 80412 Total Pages 14863 Total Visits 7219 Total KBytes 1897946 Total Unique Sites 4752 Total Unique URLs 2557 Total Unique Referrers […]

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – July 2014

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: July 2014 Generated 01-Aug-2014 03:12 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for July 2014 Total Hits 77882 Total Files 68783 Total Pages 16823 Total Visits 6926 Total KBytes 2326837 Total Unique Sites 6040 Total Unique URLs 2575 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – December 2015

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: December 2015 Generated 01-Jan-2016 02:14 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for December 2015 Total Hits 74643 Total Files 63583 Total Pages 18127 Total Visits 8325 Total KBytes 1703857 Total Unique Sites 4873 Total Unique URLs 2595 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – April 2017

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: April 2017 Generated 01-May-2017 00:39 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for April 2017 Total Hits 68209 Total Files 50454 Total Pages 14666 Total Visits 7196 Total KBytes 1313104 Total Unique Sites 5629 Total Unique URLs 2509 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – August 2018

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: August 2018 Generated 01-Sep-2018 00:30 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for August 2018 Total Hits 70860 Total Files 54110 Total Pages 11643 Total Visits 5916 Total KBytes 1592662 Total Unique Sites 4029 Total Unique URLs 2627 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – December 2019

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: December 2019 Generated 01-Jan-2020 00:10 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for December 2019 Total Hits 48134 Total Files 40036 Total Pages 13593 Total Visits 6202 Total KBytes 1034266 Total Unique Sites 2779 Total Unique URLs 2681 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – April 2021

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: April 2021 Generated 31-May-2021 23:44 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for April 2021 Total Hits 33 Total Files 28 Total Pages 33 Total Visits 12 Total KBytes 220 Total Unique Sites 4 Total Unique URLs 26 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – August 2022

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: August 2022 Generated 30-Sep-2022 23:44 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for August 2022 Total Hits 3 Total Files 2 Total Pages 1 Total Visits 1 Total KBytes 40 Total Unique Sites 2 Total Unique URLs 2 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – December 2023

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: December 2023 Generated 31-Jan-2024 23:37 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for December 2023 Total Hits 20 Total Files 14 Total Pages 2 Total Visits 2 Total KBytes 127 Total Unique Sites 20 Total Unique URLs 9 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – April 2025

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: April 2025 Generated 31-May-2025 23:35 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for April 2025 Total Hits 13 Total Files 11 Total Pages 8 Total Visits 7 Total KBytes 374 Total Unique Sites 11 Total Unique URLs 10 Total Unique Referrers

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Second Pictorials: blitz perforations

Blitz perforations In September and again in December 1940, De La Rue‘s printing works were extensively damaged during the blitz (bombing) of London in World War II. Clicking on some of the following images will cause relevant plate blocks to be displayed. This made it difficult for De La Rue to fulfil all their contracts

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Second Official Trans-Tasman Airmail: Kingsford Smith

2nd Official Trans-Tasman Airmail After the first official airmail on 17 February, there were three further official New Zealand – Australia airmails and one official Australia-New Zealand airmail in 1934. The second official trans-Tasman airmail was on 29 March 1934 by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The flight was from Ninety Mile Beach, Kaitaia in the

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Imperial Airways Eastern Route (- NZ), 1935 – February 1937

Imperial Airways Eastern Route (- NZ), 1935 – February 1937 The Singapore – Brisbane stage of the Empire Air Service was opened in December 1934 providing the first regular airmail service between Australia and the UK. This page deals with flights from January 1935 up until flying boats were introduced on the Southampton – Alexandria

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KLM flight to Australia, 1931

KLM flight to Australia, 1931 In May 1931, KLM added an experimental flight from Batavia to Melbourne to their regular Amsterdam – Batavia (Dutch East Indies) service providing a through service from Amsterdam to Australia. This prompted Imperial Airways to quickly plan two experimental flights from London to Australia and return. The regular service by

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WW 2 Airgraphs

WW 2 Airgraphs Airgraphs were developed by Kodak. The idea was that a letter was written on a special form which was then photographed. A large number of letters could be put on a single roll of film which was then flown to its destination. On arrival, the film was processed on to a roll

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Scheduled New Zealand Airmails: East Coast Airways extensions

East Coast Airways extension On 30 October 1937, East Coast Airways extended their Gisborne, Napier service to Palmerston North and on 10 January 1938 to Wanganui. The extension to Palmerston North enabled connections to be made with Union Airways services at Palmerston North and hence with Cook Strait Airways at Blenheim. This cover was carried

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New Zealand Experimental Internal Airmails 1930-32

Survey Flights 1930-32 Although New Zealand is larger than the United Kingdom, its population is less than 3.5 million. The distance by road from the north of the North Island to the south of the South Island is greater than the distance between Edinburgh in Scotland and Milan in Italy. The combination of it being

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Full Face Queens: perforated issues

The Full Face Queens When the printings on star watermark paper resumed in August 1864, the Government perforating machine had been installed. The use of the NZ watermark paper therefore forms a neat interlude between the imperforate issues and those on star watermarked paper perforated 12½. At the end of 1864, stamp production was moved

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George V Definitive Officials

George V Recess Officials The 3d, 6d and 1s values were issued overprinted OFFICIAL in 1915 / 1916 while the 4d, 8d and 9d were issued in the 1920s. None of the other recess printed values were overprinted. The stamps The 3d value was issued overprinted OFFICIAL in December 1915, the 6d value in June

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Health 1937

Health 1937 The plates were made of chromium-plated copper. The die and plates of the 1937 Health issue were prepared and printed by the Australian Note and Stamp Printer, Melbourne as was the case in the previous two years. The 1937 design was by G. Bull and J. Berry. Two plates were used, numbered 1

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Government Life Insurance Department Stamps 1891-1947

Life Insurance The New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department was opened in 1869 and started issuing its own stamps in 1891. All the designs have featured lighthouses. The dies were engraved by A.E.Cousins and plates made at the Government Printing Office. The following values were issued: ½d, 1d, 2d, 3d, 6d and 1/- (1s). The

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – December 2011

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: December 2011 Generated 01-Jan-2012 10:46 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for December 2011 Total Hits 83470 Total Files 71667 Total Pages 11579 Total Visits 5542 Total KBytes 1582911 Total Unique Sites 3230 Total Unique URLs 2448 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – April 2013

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: April 2013 Generated 01-May-2013 06:28 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Users] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for April 2013 Total Hits 89090 Total Files 76995 Total Pages 16643 Total Visits 7391 Total KBytes 1764686 Total Unique Sites 4810 Total Unique URLs 2521 Total Unique

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – August 2014

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: August 2014 Generated 01-Sep-2014 03:19 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for August 2014 Total Hits 78826 Total Files 71422 Total Pages 18632 Total Visits 7628 Total KBytes 2074985 Total Unique Sites 5346 Total Unique URLs 2569 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – January 2016

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: January 2016 Generated 01-Feb-2016 02:19 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for January 2016 Total Hits 79543 Total Files 68869 Total Pages 19709 Total Visits 8918 Total KBytes 2105194 Total Unique Sites 5337 Total Unique URLs 2586 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – May 2017

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: May 2017 Generated 01-Jun-2017 00:40 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for May 2017 Total Hits 79989 Total Files 59599 Total Pages 15592 Total Visits 7669 Total KBytes 1587403 Total Unique Sites 5535 Total Unique URLs 2597 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – September 2018

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: September 2018 Generated 01-Oct-2018 00:25 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for September 2018 Total Hits 67793 Total Files 52737 Total Pages 12699 Total Visits 6112 Total KBytes 1573962 Total Unique Sites 3955 Total Unique URLs 2621 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – January 2020

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: January 2020 Generated 01-Feb-2020 00:16 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for January 2020 Total Hits 48355 Total Files 42515 Total Pages 12770 Total Visits 6049 Total KBytes 1039725 Total Unique Sites 3519 Total Unique URLs 2671 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – May 2021

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: May 2021 Generated 30-Jun-2021 23:42 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for May 2021 Total Hits 101 Total Files 75 Total Pages 5 Total Visits 5 Total KBytes 1816 Total Unique Sites 11 Total Unique URLs 72 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – September 2022

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: September 2022 Generated 31-Oct-2022 23:43 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for September 2022 Total Hits 38 Total Files 34 Total Pages 12 Total Visits 1 Total KBytes 1365 Total Unique Sites 4 Total Unique URLs 34 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – January 2024

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: January 2024 Generated 28-Feb-2024 23:37 EST [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for January 2024 Total Hits 10 Total Files 9 Total Pages 2 Total Visits 2 Total KBytes 308 Total Unique Sites 8 Total Unique URLs 8 Total Unique Referrers

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Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk – May 2025

Usage Statistics for nzstamps.org.uk Summary Period: May 2025 Generated 30-Jun-2025 23:38 EDT [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites] [Referrers] [Search] [Agents] [Countries] Monthly Statistics for May 2025 Total Hits 5 Total Files 4 Total Pages 4 Total Visits 3 Total KBytes 37 Total Unique Sites 3 Total Unique URLs 3 Total Unique Referrers

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Second Pictorials: blitz perforation plates

Blitz perforations: the plates After bomb damage to their works in September 1940, De La Rue handed several plates over to Waterlow & Sons. In addition, some sheets printed by De La Rue were perforated by Harrison or Waterlow. Twopence Perf 14 Harrison Perf 14×15 Plate 2, containing 480 impressions, was in use at this

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Unofficial Goodwill Airmail

Goodwill Airmail, May 1934 Ulm tried (and failed) to get approval for a second official airmail from Australia to New Zealand and so announced instead that he would make a Goodwill Flight. He had approval from the New Zealand Post Office for an official airmail on the return flight which would then connect with the

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Imperial Airways Eastern Route (- NZ), February 1937 – July 1938

Imperial Airways Eastern Route (- NZ), February 1937 – July 1938 This page deals with the gradual introduction of Short S23 flying boats on the Imperial Airways Eastern Route. Until February 1937, the Paris – Brindisi stage of the Eastern Route was by rail. In February 1937, Short S23 flying boats were introduced on the

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Late Fee

Late fee Acceptance of letters for a sailing of the trans-Tasman steamer closed several hours before the boat sailed. However, letters were still accepted on payment of a special late fee. The cover is routed Per Air Mail Via Australia and so would be sent to Sydney by sea and then sent to Karachi by

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End of Pan American Service, Dec 1941

End of Pan American Service, Dec 1941 There were only three flights from San Francisco to Auckland via Fiji and two flights from Auckland (either 13 [1] and 27 November [1, 4] or 12 and 25 November [2, 3]) before the New Zealand – US service was suspended until 1946 due to the Japanese attack

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Emergency Flights, June 1940

Emergency Flights, June 1940 Early in the morning of 19 June 1940, the Niagara was sunk by a mine shortly after leaving Auckland. As a precaution, the ferry services across the Cook Strait were cancelled and ordinary surface mail was flown between Wellington and the South Island on emergency flights on aircraft chartered from Union

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Survey Flights 1931 – 1932

Wellington – West Coast On January 20, 1932 a survey flight was made from Wellington to Hokitika on the west coast of the South Island with the return on the same day. Stops were made in both directions at Nelson and Westport. The company involved was Air Travel, the pilot was M.C. McGregor and the

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Full Face Queens: new colours

New Colours 1871 The colours of the 1d, 2d and 6d were changed in 1871 with the new stamps being issued on July 1. The paper had the large star watermark. The 1d was changed to brown, the 2d to orange and the 6d to blue. The 1d plate was very worn by this stage.

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