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CAPITAL PHILATELY
NOVEMBER 1993 - VOL. 12 NO.1
Editorial. 1Dingle Smith
Two favourite covers from South Africa 3Dingle Smith
Hector Kinloch - a tribute 4Pamela Van der Sprenkel
Unusual features of Belgium postal stationery 5Ian McMahon
Dynamic Roots of Postal History. Reading 72: First Flight 9Alan Tippett
A mysterious Sydney c.d.s 11Ken Humphreys
Book reviewsNew Zealand and the UPU to 1907 13
Colin CapillAdditional Commonwealth PTPO stationery 14
Ian McMahon
EDITORIAL
One of the delights of an academic career is the opportunity for outside studies leave. Forthe last four months I was resident in South Africa and I would like to thank Ian McMahonfor editing the August number of Capital Philately. My visit allowed me to visit the SouthAfrican National Show in Durban, August 18-22, and to attend meetings of the OrangeFree State Philatelic Society in Bloemfontein and the Royal Philatelic Society of CapeTown. The dominant impression was the similarity in organisation of the hobby and theinterests and concerns of philatelists.
Club programs correspond closely to our own. Bloemfontein has a relatively smallmembership and meetings combine a display, items of interest and an small auction. Myvisit to the Royal in Cape Town was dominated by an excellent display of St. Helena,shown on frames with a short explanatory introduction. The Royal also has an excellentlibrary adjacent to the meeting room which is in a delightful historic residence used forcommunity purposes. The combined programs of the two societies are therefore, similar tothose of our own Society. South African philatelists were however, surprised by the numberof meetings held each month in Canberra. Our own program is however, atypical. To thebest of my knowledge, no other Australian philatelic society has three regular monthlymeetings plus a Council meeting - not forgetting our '5-week month' auctions.
In South Africa the organisation at national level differs from Australia. The history is verymuch longer, some eighty years. The style also differs, South Africa uses the Congressmodel, with representatives of all affiliated societies attending an annual meeting held inconjunction with the National Show. The Congress elects a Council who conduct affairs forthe remainder of the year at national level. A special feature is that the national body
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King George VI oval die1d greenBusiness Equipment and EngineeringEdward DunlopGerards Wire Tying MachinesHarris Scarfe LtdHeinzMyersSA BrewingSidney Cooke11/2d greenElectricity Meter Manufacturing Co PtyLtdKennard Bros, BroadwayPetersPO Box 1,WaterlooPO Box 2268U MelbourneSA Brewing Co Ltd, AdelaideVacuum Oil CoWarburton Franki2 1/2d redGPO Box 331C Adelaide3d redCurtis Accessories Pty Ltd, MelbourneA G Healing
King George VI round die3d greenEdward Trenchard and Co, MelbourneJohn McNamara and Co, Melbourne3 1/2d redCommonwealth Sub-TreasuryMelbourne
Queen Elizabeth II3d green (large die)Bunge (Aust) Pty Ltd, MelbourneContainers Ltd, MelbourneM. Donaghy & SonsPO Box 274B MelbourneRegistrar, Council of Public EducationSlazengers (Aust) Pty Ltd Melbourne3 1/2d orange (small die)Belmont TradingBox 1576 GPO SydneyBusiness Equipment Pty Ltd, MelbourneKornblumsMelbourne & Metropolitan Board ofWorksShell Company of Australia3 1/2d red (large die)Dennys Lascelles LtdGPO Box 238D Brisbane
5d dark blueOnkaparinga Woollen Co, Adelaide5d light blueElder SmithMagnus Chemical CoPO Box 7 BulimbaPO Box 1651N, MelbourneRoyal Children's Hospital, ParkvilleRoyal Children's Hospital,CarltonShire of RodneyTuck's Asbestos Products Pty LtdH H Webb and Co, Footscray5d redGrace Bros Pty Ltd, BroadwayShire of Nathelia4c redCommonwealth Sub-Treasury5c orangeAlfred Lawrence, MelbourneArnott-Brockhoff-Guest, BurwoodBACM Carpets Pty Ltd, CarltonBox 613E GPO AdelaideCortex of SydneyDiners Club, MelbourneElectric PowerTransmission, SydneyRheem, WingfieldShell Company of Australia7c mauveKornblums SA LtdMelbourne and Metropolitan Board ofWorkslOcredMelbourne and Metropolitan Board ofWorks
POSTCARDSKangaroo and Map1d redG Hall and Sons, Norwood
King George V oval die11/2d redRegistrar General, NSW .
King George V octagonal die, no 'postage'in the design1d redJames Tainsh, Wood Merchant, Adelaide11/2d brownConcrete Constructions
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1WO FAVOURITE COVERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Dingle Smith
The favourite cover feature in Capital Philately offers the opportunity to illustrate andcomment on a range of material. Often the chosen items are rare and date back well intothe last century. On this occasion they are recent, philatelic in origin and serve to illustratethe text of the editorial. They are 'favourites' as they serve as a personal reminder of a veryenjoyable visit to the Republic of South Africa.
The first is the official cover from eTHEKWINI, the national show held from 18 to 22August in Durban. The organising body was the Philatelic Society of Natal, the largestphilatelic society in southern Africa. They also hosted the first national show in SouthAfrica in 1913, two years after the formation of the Union of South Africa. They haveorganised the national show every ten years since that time. My overriding impression ofeTHEKWINI was its similarity to Australian 'nationals', where annual shows are a verymuch more recent innovation. The similarity extended to the production of an overprintedframa label for the show!
Le Nasionale Filateliese Jeuguitstalling
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30JUN 198473
Junior philately in South Africa is exceptionally well organised at the national level. From1984, separate National Philatelic Youth Exhibitions have been held on an annual basis,these are known as JUNEX. The cover, illustrated above, is from the first of these shows.At eTHEKWINI the best of the junior exhibits, for the younger than 13 years and 13-15year age groups, were shown in the Court of Honour.
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BOOK REVIEW: NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION TO 1907BY COLIN CAPILL.
Ian McMahon
This publication is number eleven in the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand'smonograph series. While the book is titled New Zealand and the UPU, the story is also onerelevant to all the Australasian colonies of Great Britain and this book is therefore ofinterest to Australian States postal historians.
The Australasian colonies were late members to the UPU, only joining in 1891 some 17years after the establishment of the General Postal Union. The story of why the coloniestook so long to join the Union, despite encouragement from Britain, is an example of thedifficulty in achieving agreement between the Australasian colonies on anything whetherpostal arrangement, train gauges, road laws or education systems.
The General Postal Union was established in 1874. Two years later the Australasiancolonies were invited by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies to join the Union.The colonies declined presumably as the rate changes required to meet GPU regulationswould have resulted in large losses of postal revenue. A second offer came in 1877 bywhich time the regulations allowed any member to charge a surtax on mails carried over300 miles by sea. While this would have limited revenue losses the colonies could not agreeon whether or not to join.
In 1880 the Postmaster of Germany wrote to the British Government pointing out that allcivilised nations except the South African and Australasian colonies were now membersand requesting that the British Government put pressure on the colonies to persuade themto join. As joining the Union would still lead to losses and as the Australasian colonies hadnot yet agreed on a single mail service to Europe they again declined to join. Following the1883Australasian Conference, the colonies did agree to seek membership at the 1885UPUCongress. However, the UPU did not accept the colonies condition that they should eachhave a separate vote. Finally in 1891 the Australasian colonies, including Fiji and BritishNew Guinea, did join the UPU following their acceptance of a single vote.
The book also explores the effect of joining the UPU on New Zealand's postal services andpostage rates as well as the introduction of universal penny postage. The appendicesinclude the 1874 Treaty of the General Postal Union and the related detailed regulations,the Convention of the Universal Postal Union (1891) and associated detailed regulations,the 1897 amendments to that Convention and a list of members to 1908 and their date ofadmission. This information will be of interest to any postal historian, and not justcollectors of New Zealand.
In conclusion the book is well produced on glossy paper with good quality illustrations andis recommended to all collectors of New Zealand and Australian States postal history. Themonograph is available from the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, PO Box 1269Wellington, New Zealand for $NZ 55.00 ($NZ 45.00 to members).
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UNUSUAL FEATURES OF BELGIAN POSTAL STATIONERY
Ian McMahon
Belgium has issued the same basic range of postal stationery (including postcards,envelopes, lettercards and aerogrammes) as most other countries. However, while the basicpattern of stationery issues is generally similar, there are usually some features whichdistinguish the issues of any particular country. This article highlights some of the unusualfeatures of Belgian postal stationery.
The first Belgian postal stationery were the 1871 5c brown postcards with a numeral stamp(similar to the 1869-80 adhesives) while the first stamped envelopes were issued in 1873and featured an embossed head of King Leopold II.
Do Not Deliver on SundaysThe stamps of Belgian stationery issued during the period 1893 to 1914 included printedtabs known as bandalettes or dominical labels with the inscription 'Do not deliver onSunday' in French and Flemish in similar fashion to the adhesives of the period, see Figure1. These were introduced as the result of religious pressures to limit the deliver of letterson the Sabbath. They enabled the sender to indicate that they did not want their maildelivered on a Sunday. If the sender did not object to Sunday delivery, they could indicatethis by crossing out the inscription as directed by the instructions on the stationery. In thecase of adhesives the inscription was in a small perforated tab which could be detachedfrom the stamp.
--------,-- _ .. ~-----.--..-~.......,.-..1
POSTKAART
CARTE POSTALE
(Cote rr-serve II l'adresse. - Zijde voor liet adres allee'll,)
~~.~~~~~dJ//;LJ;:{; ~..KtU "
'1f,.~Cctte inscription peut etre WIee., - ti« opschrift mag doorgehaald worm
Figure 1 'Do not deliver on Sundays'.
Stationery issued without bandalettes were demonetarised in 1910 while thecommencement of World War I brought an end to Sunday deliveries and the need forstamps with the bandalettes. Such stationery was therefore demonetarised on 15 October1915.
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MYSTERIOUS SYDNEY CD.S.
Ken Humphreys
I have not followed up the story of the above cds since the comments in the November1984 The Date Stamp, The Travelling Post Offices of NSW 1870-1983 (Peck, 1985) and ThePostal History of the Australian Army During WWII (Collas, 1986). the latter was reviewed inThe Bulletin of the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW for 1987 - Article2045.
The following interpretations of A.M.F./R.SI. have been offered:
Auxiliary Mail Forwarding Railway SidingAustralian Military Registered Section IAustralian Military Forces Railway/Registered SidingAir Mail Forwarding Railway Siding
Details follow of covers bearing the cds as a backstamp, it has not been seen postmarkingstamps. Collas gave the ERD as 17.9.45,with no further details.
TYPE OF COVER ORIGINATING CDS AMF/SYDNEY/RSI CDS NEXT DESINATION CDS
1. Registered FDC toPomona Qld.(no airmail label)
Royal VisitlSwaziland25.3.47
8 am 8.4.47 ? pm 8.4.47Brisbane
(ainnail all the way)
2. Seen. but full detailsunrecorded-FDC Sarawak stamps
Kuching16.4.47
26.4.47
(airmail all the way)
3. Registered FDC WellingtonNew Zealand stamps: 1.5.47Airmail to Deception BayQueensland
NOTE: Airmail(?) to Sydney: air to Brisbane. See time difference AMF?RSI 11 am-Brisbane. 2.30 pm: 3'12 hours same day.
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--:-~"--' '~------'~---.---'~:-'-, =r:"~~--~':~1CARTE POSTA~POST K AART ai •••.~ ,
\ /"--
Figure 3 Orval Abbey, a commemorative postcard with charity surcharge
BEDREIGT DEN LAND- EN TUINBOUW
.,f/ ,. V •
pf/b-;:!/~
i". f; ~vu:,
~~-:7tI.
~,.~
CARTE POSTALE
POSTKAART
LE DO~YPHORE DE LA POMME DE TERRE MENACE
L'AGRICULTURE ET L'HORTICUL.TURE
~"'- ~D£ COLORADOKEVER VAN DEN AARDAPPEL
Figure 4 Eradication of the Colorado Beetle,a commemorative postcard with surcharge
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AN EXTRACT FROM THE DYNAMIC ROOTS OF POSTAL HISTORY.READING 72: FIRST FLIGHT
Alan Tippett
This is a further extract from Alan Tippett's privately printed monograph, TheDynamic Roots of Postal History. Alan died in September 1988. Edna, his wife,died in August of this year. Shortly before Alan's death they had celebratedtheir fiftieth wedding anniversary. As the wife of a Methodist minister Edna'slife was a busy one, supporting Alan's work including the mission field in Fiji.
Edna was herself a keen philatelist and remained a member of the Society untilher death. They shared many happy years together and brought fellowship andfriendship to countless others. Those who knew 'the Tippetts' will never forgettheir charm and helpfulness. Editor.
There are two phrases one often meets in popular journalism, promotion and advertising,that always 'turn me off. One is the claim that something is the biggest, fastest, longest orgreatest. The other that it is the first time, automatically I feel it is an untested claim. Thesnippets of news about postal procedures in this collection [The Dynamic Roots of PostalHistory] show that mostly our superlatives in modern philately are doubtful claims, for thewhole postal system is very, very old.
To take a postal history system at random, say the pigeon post idea. One book says thatthey began in 1870; another puts it at 1897. Sure enough the first was a book from Franceand the second from New Zealand. Fiji had one in 1884. But these are all organisedservices of recent times. Who really knows how far back into antiquity we have to go to findthe first time a pigeon was used to carry a letter? It is reported that the Sultan of Baghdadestablished a pigeon post in A.D. 1150, sending the messages in tiny capsules. I myself cango back in the records about 1800 years, but I doubt if I could say that was the first time.
There is a story of a cursus publicus, the personal courier, of Trajan Emperor of Rome,who saved his master's life and probably the whole of his military contingent byunderstanding and using the bird to this end. It happened this way.
Although Trajan subdued the Germanic tribes along the Rhine, the Thracians, Geyae andDacians along the Danube troubled Rome for years. Decebalus, King of the Dacians,demanded tribute from Trajan for keeping the others quiet along the frontier. EmperorsDomitian and Nerva had preferred to buy them off rather than fight them; but Trajan wastoo good a military man to accept this. He delayed sending his courier until his troops wereready, and he kept them just one day behind his courier.
The courier knew something of the area, its potential dangers and even had a smattering ofthe wild language of the tribes involved. At the last Roman outpost, where he changed hishorse, he also collected a pigeon, which he petted a little and called by name, put it in alittle wooden cage and slung it over his back. .
Subsequently the wild tribesmen, clad in their wolf-skin tunics, laughed at the messengerand his bird. They had heard about Roman superstitions, ravens and auguries, and nowthey saw it with their own eyes. But the bird would not protect him in the Danube regions.
Quite unceremoniously the courier was taken prisoner and put under guard. He knew therewas a mischief afoot. He picked up fragments of the conversation with the guards. They
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AN EXTRACT FROM THE DYNAMIC ROOTS OF POSTAL HISTORY.READING 72: FIRST FLIGHT
Alan Tippett
This is a further extract from Alan Tippett's privately printed monograph, TheDynamic Roots of Postal History. Alan died in September 1988. Edna, his wife,died in August of this year. Shortly before Alan's death they had celebratedtheir fiftieth wedding anniversary. As the wife of a Methodist minister Edna'slife was a busy one, supporting Alan's work including the mission field in Fiji.
Edna was herself a keen philatelist and remained a member of the Society untilher death. They shared many happy years together and brought fellowship andfriendship to countless others. Those who knew 'the Tippetts' will never forgettheir charm and helpfulness. Editor.
There are two phrases one often meets in popular journalism, promotion and advertising,that always 'turn me off. One is the claim that something is the biggest, fastest, longest orgreatest. The other that it is the first time, automatically I feel it is an untested claim. Thesnippets of news about postal procedures in this collection [The Dynamic Roots of PostalHistory] show that mostly our superlatives in modern philately are doubtful claims, for thewhole postal system is very, very old.
To take a postal history system at random, say the pigeon post idea. One book says thatthey began in 1870; another puts it at 1897. Sure enough the first was a book from Franceand the second from New Zealand. Fiji had one in 1884. But these are all organisedservices of recent times. Who really knows how far back into antiquity we have to go to findthe first time a pigeon was used to carry a letter? It is reported that the Sultan of Baghdadestablished a pigeon post in A.D. 1150, sending the messages in tiny capsules. I myself cango back in the records about 1800 years, but I doubt if I could say that was the first time.
There is a story of a cursus publicus, the personal courier, of Trajan Emperor of Rome,who saved his master's life and probably the whole of his military contingent byunderstanding and using the bird to this end. It happened this way.
Although Trajan subdued the Germanic tribes along the Rhine, the Thracians, Geyae andDacians along the Danube troubled Rome for years. Decebalus, King of the Dacians,demanded tribute from Trajan for keeping the others quiet along the frontier. EmperorsDomitian and Nerva had preferred to buy them off rather than fight them; but Trajan wastoo good a military man to accept this. He delayed sending his courier until his troops wereready, and he kept them just one day behind his courier.
The courier knew something of the area, its potential dangers and even had a smattering ofthe wild language of the tribes involved. At the last Roman outpost, where he changed hishorse, he also collected a pigeon, which he petted a little and called by name, put it in alittle wooden cage and slung it over his back.
Subsequently the wild tribesmen, clad in their wolf-skin tunics, laughed at the messengerand his bird. They had heard about Roman superstitions, ravens and auguries, and nowthey saw it with their own eyes. But the bird would not protect him in the Danube regions.
Quite unceremoniously the courier was taken prisoner and put under guard. He knew therewas a mischief afoot. He picked up fragments of the conversation with the guards. They
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Figure 3 Orval Abbey, a commemorative postcard with charity surcharge
BEDREIGT DEN LAND- EN TUINBOUW
CARTE POSTALE
POSTKAART
LE DOIlVPHORE DE LA POMME DE TERRE MENACE
L'AGRICULTURE ET L'HORTICULTURE
f."- ~DE COLORADOKEVER VAN DEN AARDAPPEL
Figure 4 Eradication of the Colorado Beetle,a commemorative postcard with surcharge
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MYSTERIOUS SYDNEY C.D.S.
Ken Humphreys
I have not followed up the story of the above cds since the comments in the November1984 The Date Stamp, The Travelling Post Offices of NSW 1870-1983 (Peck, 1985) and ThePostal History of the Australian Amzy During WWII (Collas, 1986). the latter was reviewed inThe Bulletin of the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW for 1987 - Article2045.
The following interpretations of A.M.F./R.SI. have been offered:
Auxiliary Mail Forwarding Railway SidingAustralian Military Registered Section IAustralian Military Forces Railway/Registered SidingAir Mail Forwarding Railway Siding
Details follow of covers bearing the cds as a backstamp, it has not been seen postmarkingstamps. Collas gave the ERD as 17.9.45, with no further details.
TYPE OF COVER ORIGINATING CDS AMF/SYDNEY/RSI CDS NEXT DESINATION CDS
1. Registered FDC toPomona Qld.(no airmail label)
Royal Visit/Swaziland25.3.47
8 am 8.4.47 ? pm 8.4.47Brisbane
(ainnail all the way)
2. Seen, but full detailsunrecorded-FDC Sarawak stamps
Kuching16.4.47
26.4.47
(airmail all the way)
3. Registered FDC WellingtonNew Zealand stamps: 1.5.47Airmail to Deception BayQueensland
5. Registered FDC to Newcastle 11 am 11.9.47 2.30 pm 11.9.47Toowoomba, Qld. 8.9.47 BrisbaneAirmailNOTE: Airmail(?) to Sydney: air to Brisbane. See time difference AMF?RSI 11 am-Brisbane. 2.30 pm: 3';' hours same day.
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UNUSUAL FEATURES OF BELGIAN POSTAL STATIONERY
Ian McMahon
Belgium has issued the same basic range of postal stationery (including postcards,envelopes, lettercards and aerogrammes) as most other countries. However, while the basicpattern of stationery issues is generally similar, there are usually some features whichdistinguish the. issues of any particular country. This article highlights some of the unusualfeatures of Belgian postal stationery.
The first Belgian postal stationery were the 1871 5c brown postcards with a numeral stamp(similar to the 1869-80 adhesives) while the first stamped envelopes were issued in 1873and featured an embossed head of King Leopold II.
Do Not Deliver on SundaysThe stamps of Belgian stationery issued during the period 1893 to 1914 included printedtabs known as bandalettes or dominical labels with the inscription 'Do not deliver onSunday' in French and Flemish in similar fashion to the adhesives of the period, see Figure1. These were introduced as the result of religious pressures to limit the deliver of letterson the Sabbath. They enabled the sender to indicate that they did not want their maildelivered on a Sunday. If the sender did not object to Sunday delivery, they could indicatethis by crossing out the inscription as directed by the instructions on the stationery. In thecase of adhesives the inscription was in a small perforated tab which could be detachedfrom the stamp.
--- ..._._-_ ....._......,... ..
1
POSTKAART
CARTE POSTALE
(Cot;' r;,serve a l'adresse. - Zijde voor het adrrs allnn.)
~~.~~~~~ dJ///L~~
~tkl,'1t,~Cctte inscription peut etre biffee., - Dat opschrif] mag doorqehaald fDord< _._.1Figure 1 'Do not deliver on Sundays'.
Stationery issued without bandalettes were demonetarised in 1910 while thecommencement of World War I brought an end to Sunday deliveries and the need forstamps with the bandalettes. Such stationery was therefore demonetarised on 15 October1915.
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BOOK REVIEW: NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION TO 1907BY COLIN CAPILL.
Ian McMahon
This publication is number eleven in the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand'smonograph series. While the book is titled New Zealand and the UPU, the story is also onerelevant to all the Australasian colonies of Great Britain and this book is therefore ofinterest to Australian States postal historians.
The Australasian colonies were late members to the UPU, only joining in 1891 some 17years after the establishment of the General Postal Union. The story of why the coloniestook so long to join the Union, despite encouragement from Britain, is an example of thedifficulty in achieving agreement between the Australasian colonies on anything whetherpostal arrangement, train gauges, road laws or education systems.
The General Postal Union was established in 1874. Two years later the Australasiancolonies were invited by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies to join the Union.The colonies declined presumably as the rate changes required to meet GPU regulationswould have resulted in large losses of postal revenue. A second offer came in 1877 bywhich time the regulations allowed any member to charge a surtax on mails carried over300 miles by sea. While this would have limited revenue losses the colonies could not agreeon whether or not to join.
In 1880 the Postmaster of Germany wrote to the British Government pointing out that allcivilised nations except the South African and Australasian colonies were now membersand requesting that the British Government put pressure on the colonies to persuade themto join. As joining the Union would still lead to losses and as the Australasian colonies hadnot yet agreed on a single mail service to Europe they again declined to join. Following the1883Australasian Conference, the colonies did agree to seek membership at the 1885UPUCongress. However, the UPU did not accept the colonies condition that they' should eachhave a separate vote. Finally in 1891 the Australasian colonies, including FIji and BritishNew Guinea, did join the UPU following their acceptance of a single vote.
The book also explores the effect of joining the UPU on New Zealand's postal services andpostage rates as well as the introduction of universal penny postage. The appendicesinclude the 1874 Treaty of the General Postal Union and the related detailed regulations,the Convention of the Universal Postal Union (1891) and associated detailed re~ulations,the 1897 amendments to that Convention and a list of members to 1908 and their date ofadmission. This information will be of interest to any postal historian, and not justcollectors of New Zealand.
In conclusion the book is well produced on glossy paper with good quality illustrations andis recommended to all collectors of New Zealand and Australian States postal history. Themonograph is available from the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, PO Box 1269Wellington, New Zealand for $NZ 55.00 ($NZ 45.00 to members).
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1WO FAVOURITE COVERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Dingle Smith
The favourite cover feature in Capital Philately offers the opportunity to illustrate andcomment on a range of material. Often the chosen items are rare and date back well intothe last century. On this occasion they are recent, philatelic in origin and serve to illustratethe text of the editorial. They are 'favourites' as they serve as a personal reminder of a veryenjoyable visit to the Republic of South Africa.
The first is the official cover from eTHEKWINI, the national show held from 18 to 22August in Durban. The organising body was the Philatelic Society of Natal, the largestphilatelic society in southern Africa. They also hosted the first national show in SouthAfrica in 1913, two years after the formation of the Union of South Africa. They haveorganised the national show every ten years since that time. My overriding impression ofeTHEKWINI was its similarity to Australian 'nationals', where annual shows are a verymuch more recent innovation. The similarity extended to the production of an overprintedframa label for the show!
Le Nasionale Filateliese Jeuguitstalling
~
~30JUN1984
73 73
Junior philately in South Africa is exceptionally well organised at the national level. From1984, separate National Philatelic Youth Exhibitions have been held on an annual basis,these are known as JUNEX. The cover, illustrated above, is from the first of these shows.At eTHEKWINI the best of the junior exhibits, for the younger than 13 years and 13-15year age groups, were shown in the Court of Honour.
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King George VI oval dieId greenBusiness Equipment and EngineeringEdward DunlopGerards Wire Tying MachinesHarris Scarfe LtdHeinzMyersSA BrewingSidney Cooke11/2d greenElectricity Meter Manufacturing Co PtyLtdKennard Bros, BroadwayPetersPO Box 1,WaterlooPO Box 2268U MelbourneSA Brewing Co Ltd, AdelaideVacuum Oil CoWarburton Franki2 1/2d redGPO Box 331C Adelaide3d redCurtis Accessories Pty Ltd, MelbourneAG Healing
King George VI round die3d greenEdward Trenchard and Co, MelbourneJohn McNamara and Co, Melbourne3 1/2d redCommonwealth Sub-TreasuryMelbourne
Queen Elizabeth II3d green (large die)Bunge (Aust) Pty Ltd, MelbourneContainers Ltd, MelbourneM. Donaghy & SonsPO Box 274B MelbourneRegistrar, Council of Public EducationSlazengers (Aust) Pty Ltd Melbourne3 1/2d orange (small die)Belmont TradingBox 1576 GPO SydneyBusiness Equipment Pty Ltd, MelbourneKornblumsMelbourne & Metropolitan Board ofWorksShell Company of Australia3 1/2d red (large die)Dennys Lascelles LtdGPO Box 238D Brisbane
5d dark blueOnkaparinga Woollen Co, Adelaide5d light blueElder SmithMagnus Chemical CoPO Box 7 BulimbaPO Box 1651N, MelbourneRoyal Children's Hospital, ParkvilleRoyal Children's Hospital,CarltonShire of RodneyTuck's Asbestos Products Pty LtdH H Webb and Co, Footscray5d redGrace Bros Pty Ltd, BroadwayShire of Nathelia4c redCommonwealth Sub-Treasury5c orangeAlfred Lawrence, MelbourneArnott-Brockhoff-Guest, BurwoodBACM Carpets Pty Ltd, CarltonBox 613E GPO AdelaideCortex of SydneyDiners Club, MelbourneElectric PowerTransmission, SydneyRheem, WingfieldShell Company of Australia7c mauveKornblums SA LtdMelbourne and Metropolitan Board ofWorksIOc redMelbourne and Metropolitan Board ofWorks
POSTCARDSKangaroo and Mapld redG Hall and Sons, Norwood
King George V oval dieI 1/2d redRegistrar General, NSW .
King George V octagonal die, no 'postage'in the designId redJames Tainsh, Wood Merchant, Adelaide11/2d brownConcrete Constructions
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NOVEMBER 1993 - VOL. 12 NO.1
Editorial. 1Dingle Smith
Two favourite covers from South Africa 3Dingle Smith
Hector Kinloch - a tribute 4Pamela Van der Sprenkel
Unusual features of Belgium postal stationery 5Ian McMahon
Dynamic Roots of Postal History. Reading 72: First Flight 9Alan Tippett
A mysterious Sydney c.d.s 11Ken Humphreys
Book reviewsNew Zealand and the UPU to 1907 13
Colin CapillAdditional Commonwealth PTPO stationery 14
Ian McMahon
EDITORIAL
One of the delights of an academic career is the opportunity for outside studies leave. Forthe last four months I was resident in South Africa and I would like to thank Ian McMahonfor editing the August number of Capital Philately. My visit allowed me to visit the SouthAfrican National Show in Durban, August 18-22, and to attend meetings of the OrangeFree State Philatelic Society in Bloemfontein and the Royal Philatelic Society of CapeTown. The dominant impression was the similarity in organisation of the hobby and theinterests and concerns of philatelists.
Club programs correspond closely to our own. Bloemfontein has a relatively smallmembership and meetings combine a display, items of interest and an small auction. Myvisit to the Royal in Cape Town was dominated by an excellent display of St. Helena,shown on frames with a short explanatory introduction. The Royal also has an excellentlibrary adjacent to the meeting room which is in a delightful historic residence used forcommunity purposes. The combined programs of the two societies are therefore, similar tothose of our own Society. South African philatelists were however, surprised by the numberof meetings held each month in Canberra. Our own program is however, atypical. To thebest of my knowledge, no other Australian philatelic society has three regular monthlymeetings plus a Council meeting - not forgetting our '5-week month' auctions.
In South Africa the organisation at national level differs from Australia. The history is verymuch longer, some eighty years. The style also differs, South Africa uses the Congressmodel, with representatives of all affiliated societies attending an annual meeting held inconjunction with the National Show. The Congress elects a Council who conduct affairs forthe remainder of the year at national level. A special feature is that the national body
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