New Zealand: Stamps

New Zealand Registration Labels
1. Seeking any information on "State Advances Corp"  and whether this may be a new discovery ?
I date it between 1903 and 1909
The Government Advances to Settlers Office was set up in 1903 for the purpose of issuing cheap loans to small farmers, settlers and workers
Not listed (with cursory page turnings)   in Voyce or Campbell



2. What would the acronym "MOW" indicate, please  ...Money Order  W ...?


3. I do not see any reference to any Registered Mail opportunity in the Chathams
I looked under, WAITANGI,  OWENGA, PITT ISLAND,  and CHATHAM

DK



"Ministry of works"  is my choice, (esp given the type of label, age etc)
Bravo Dave 

A piece on this service from the nzstamps.org.uk website:


1930-31 Dominion Airlines flights










Dave

I'm going into the cancellation business!  .  Picked this up on trademe.

Anyone want any first day covers?   .  It's locked and loaded with today's date but I'm a bit restricted by years.  Still got '31 which is handy! 

I have discovered New Zealand's second most valuable stamp  
Sc# 113 1903 "Four Penny Lake Taupo Invert"   (A second copy)  (78 Inverts remain undiscovered)

New Zealand
South Arabia
Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut
Stampex 1967

I'd suggest this may be a design of the enigmatic "Bruce Conde"
Bruce Alfonso de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, Alfonso Yorba, and Hajji Abdurrahman.

To all the old "Tars" out there.

New Zealand Maritime history,   captured in very skilful song writing,  by "Split Enz"   (A Classic)

 "Six Months In A Leaky Boat"

When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
That's the life for me
Living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor
Circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer
Will acknowledge no frontier

I remember you by
Thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare
'Round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat

Aotearoa..........(New Zealand)
Rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl
At the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance
Didn't stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me
I'll conquer and stay free
Ah, come on all you lads
Let's forget and forgive
There's a world to explore
Tales to tell back on shore
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Six months in a leaky boat

Shipwrecked love can be cruel
Don't be fooled by her kind
There's a wind in my sails
Will protect and prevail
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Nothing to it leaky boat

Sc# 980>  1990

1936 Pictorial Set SG 577-590 MM

Mounted Mint

New Zealand 3d Type F
"The London Philatelist, 1919"

Broken / worn perforating pins  and other stuff.

Any bright bookworm, to suggest what the icon is, for the leading "F" ?   Hygeia ?
or, is she looking through a telescope, insinuating "study"?

If Esq. appears at the end of a name, then the first word would be a Christian name. In your case it is Dandeson Coates Esq.

Read down to the bottom of this site:

downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/the-wellington-valley-project/gunther/gunther-letters/iv-30-november-1839.html

Sorry, working from my phone ...

The above link to the National Library may be helpful.

RK

Thanks Jaysee
(did not see this post, when I answered RK's suggestion, sorry)

Yes, I think he was part of the family of Dandeson Coates  (and adopted CROWTHER)
born 1844
Son of the elder Dandeson Coates to whom, the mail was forwarded

Sort of hit a muse, as my great great grandfather, was involved in
the anti slavery patrols, down the west coast of Africa.

"If Esq. appears at the end of a name, then the first word would be a Christian name."    learn something every day 

Dunedin to Lancashire, England   for 10d   (Ten Pence) 

Note: "Bolton le Moors"  is an Church of England ecclesiastical Parish boundary.

By Bolton Evening News Reporter


ONE of the most valuable envelopes ever sent to Bolton is expected to fetch up to £3,500 when it is auctioned next month.

The pale blue envelope was sent from Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1870 at a cost of 10 old pennies.

It was addressed to Mrs W.M.French, Rose Hill, Bolton-le-Moors, and is valuable because the Franco-Prussian war in Europe prevented the letter from being carried on its normal route.

It could not go through France, so it was diverted via the Italian port of Brindisi and came to Bolton via Italy, Germany and Belgium.

On its way, the envelope was stamped: "Insufficiently paid for Brindisi route, deficient postage, 3d."

It is this hand-stamped message which makes the envelope "very rare" and valuable, according to auctioneers Spink, which is putting the envelope under the hammer on October 3.

Only one other envelope posted from New Zealand is known to feature this "insufficiently paid" notice, probably applied by a post office clerk with a metal stamp at Alexandria, Egypt.

Without this, the envelope would be worth only a fraction of its current value, probably between £500 and £600.

But this was of no consolation to Mrs French, of Bolton.

For it meant that through no fault of her own - and because of the war raging in Europe which started on July 15, 1870 a - she had to pay a threepenny surcharge when the envelope eventually reached her in Bolton.

The envelope took 10 weeks to make the 11,500-mile trip from New Zealand to Lancashire: by ship from New Zealand to Alexandria, Egypt, across the Mediterranean to Brindisi, by rail through Europe, across the English Channel to one of the Kent ports, and then by rail to Bolton.

It left New Zealand in July, 1870, reached Bolton Post Office on Boxing Day that year and was delivered to Mrs French the following day, December 27.

It is not known who sent the envelope because the letter inside it is missing.




Another Cover to Mrs French