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| From the Newsletter - July 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PIGEON POST A few weeks ago while the Auckland Naval Reserve training ship, which I had the privilege to command, was laying at anchor off Port Fitzroy on Great Barrier Island, a small amphibian flew over and landed near by. As I watched the mail and stores being unloaded from the plane I found myself comparing this regular air service with days long ago, when the island’s only communication with the mainland was a steamer which did the trip once a week if the weather permitted. The island which has an area of 110 square miles and is situated about 60 miles north of Auckland, had a plentiful supply of kauri trees and this was possibly one of the main attractions to the early settler, who exported quantities of timber. The later discovery of copper deposits attracted more settlers and by 1862 the population of Port Fitzroy, the chief settlement, was sufficient to warrant the opening of a post office. The easily accessible timber soon began to dwindle however and the copper mines were not profitable, so for many years trade was small. Mr Smales, who had an interest in the copper mining company, felt that a more rapid and efficient system of communication would greatly assist his company and so in 1897 he contacted Mr Perkin, a pigeon fancier of Auckland, who decided to inaugurate a pigeon service. Services were established from Port Fitzroy and Okupu and the first message was carried on 14 May 1897. Thereafter a regular service was operated and further agencies were later established as far afield as Port Charles on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waiheke Island and Whitford.
New Zealand Stamp Exhibition Dates
Australasia 2012 26-29 September 2012 A Themed National Exhibition from the NZ Society of GB, British Society of Australian Philately, Pacific Island Study Circle, London 2012 (Part of Autumn Stampex 2012 at the Business Design Centre, Islington) Blenpex 2012 12-14 October 2012 A Specialised Stamp and Postcard Exhibition, the Marlborough Lines Stadium, Blenheim.
Upper Hutt 2013 13-16 September 2013 A Specialised National Exhibition. ANZAC 2015, New Zealand 2015 Auckland April 2015 A limited International Exhibition, Auckland 2015
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