1935 Airmail

1935 Airmail

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
1d	Red	51a	$2.70	$1.35	$0.90
3d	Violet	51b	$16.20	$6.80	$6.75
6d	Blue	51c	$36.00	$17.00	$9.00

	Set of 3	51d	$52.15	$23.90	$15.80

	First Day Cover - 4 May 1935	51e			$540.00
	… Three Stamps : 1d (51a), 3d (51b), 6d (51c)

In 1935 a new set of airmail stamps replaced the 1931 designs. The new design was based on a photograph of the trans-Tasman 'Faith in Australia' aircraft landing at Bell Block aerodrome in New Plymouth.

The cost of airmail delivery was dropping and at the end of 1934, the first internal airmail services began operating between Hokitika and Okuru in Westland, charging standard postal rates.

By 1938, airmail rates between New Zealand, Britain and most of the British Empire were fixed at 1½d per half ounce and the use of special airmail stamps ceased shortly afterwards.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand (Volume I)

Edited by R. J. G. Collins and H. T. M. Fathers B.A. B.Sc.

Published 1938 by The Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 447 - 457

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume VIII

Edited by B. G. Vincent FRPSNZ

Published 1998 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated (ISSN 0-9597883-1-X)

Page 713

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