Published Articles

From the “Officially Sealed” series:

• A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 1, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 1 – 1882 – 1897 Labels Types 1 & 2.
• A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 2, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 2 – 1897 – 1904 Type 3 Labels
• A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 4, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 3; 1903 – 1920 Types 4, 5 and 6 Labels.
• A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 99, No. 1, 2019; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 4; 1928 – 1963 Type 7 Labels.
• A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 99, No. 4, 2019; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 5; 1953 – 1966 Type 8 & 9 Labels
• L G Chitty, A S Craig; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 101, No. 3, “New Zealand Post Office and New Zealand Post “OFFICIALLY SEALED” Tapes (Part 6).

Anyone who can add items to the censuses of the first 6 publications, please contact Lindsay through the Royal Philatelic Society Office, New Zealand.

WWII Prisoner of War and Civilian Internee Mail between New Zealand and the Far East

This correspondence is particularly scarce because New Zealand had no troops in the Far East WWII. We did have a few New Zealanders in the RAF based in Singapore, and on a few remote Pacific Islands. Civilians in the occupied territories were imprisoned when they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

• L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 102, No. 3, 2022, World War II Correspondence from the Far East during the Japanese Occupation.
• L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 103, No. 1, 2023, WWII Prisoner of War and Civilian Internee Correspondence NZ to the Far East during the Japanese Occupation.

Anyone able to assist with examples of this correspondence are asked to please contact Lindsay through the Royal Philatelic Society Office, New Zealand.

Research Request

This edited request was published in the London Philatelist. Basically, anyone with copies of any Prisoner of War or Civilian Internee Correspondence from or to any New Zealanders taken prisoner in the Far East during the Japanese occupation WWII, 1942-45.

L G Chitty; The London Philatelist, Vol 125, No. 1432, page 64; WWII Japanese POW and Internee Correspondence to and from New Zealand.