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This brief newsletter is a follow-up to the recent AGM.
I thank everyone for their participation at the AGM. Zoom meetings aren’t always the best but most attendees had something to say (in a good way!) and so I felt democracy was working and there was a genuine desire to share views.  Twenty-six member societies were represented. The current NZPF membership is 38.

Some dates for 2025

• 7–9 March 2025. Royalpex2025 National Stamp Exhibition, Palmerston North organised by RPSNZ.
• 27 April 2025 Fair – 120 sales tables for collectable cards and picture postcards organised and hosted by NZ Cartophilic Society at Indian Assoc hall, 48 King St., Kilbirnie, Wellington.
• 10 May 2025 Stamps, Coins and Postcard EXPO, Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson Street, Palmerston North.
• 20-21 September 2025 NZ Interclub Exhibition at King’s College, Auckland organised and hosted by Auckland PS.
• 4 October 2025 North Shore Exhibition, Auckland. Hosted by North Shore PS.
• 18 October 2025 “Collecting History” exhibition and fair. The Granary, Founders Park, Nelson. Hosted by Nelson PS.

Albums closed

Gerald Ellott on 6.12.2024.
Gerald was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1988, is a recipient of the FIP Research Medal and was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to philately in 2008. Gerald was primarily a postal historian with many books to his name. He was a member of many societies and lived in Auckland.
Tony Schluter on 13.12.2024.
Tony was a long-time member of Kaitaia PS and a frequent exhibitor at national and international shows with his classical NZ postal history.

Closure of PO Box

Please note that NZPF has closed its PO Box. All mail should be sent to NZPF c/- The Secretary, 160 Soleares Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081.

FIAP 50th […]

Welcome to this newsletter as we head towards summer. Continuing my theme of Federation assisting your society here are some more ideas to help your society prosper.

What can Federation do for you?

The main reason for the existence of Federation is to help societies. We do this in a number of ways – through advocacy and having a framework of exhibition standards and procedures, to name just a couple.

Speakers
Something that Colin Dyer has started and then quickly followed up by John Powell (delegates for Central and Northern respectively) is to have a list of speakers and their subjects. This will assist societies by suggesting new speakers who can come and give entertaining presentations on subjects that are perhaps new to you. Please share the names of good speakers with your delegates who can then help fill the calendar for next and succeeding years. Lists are started for the two regions mentioned above.

Commission Delegates
When the Federation surveys its members (as it last did in 2017) one of the topics that is always high on the wants list is upskilling society membership with exhibiting tips.
If you go to the Federation website under https://nzpf.org.nz/about-us/international-involvement/fip/fip-commissions-nz-delegates/ you will find a list of delegates for FIP commissions. My own role as traditional delegate I see is to assist exhibitors of traditional class material understand the rules a bit better, encourage the formation and development of traditional exhibits and get more out of the material they probably already own. By way of example, I recently gave a talk at the Canberra Stamp Show on Title Pages. Delegates will be very happy to give your society a talk on exhibiting tips.

Exhibitions
We all need exhibitions if we are to promote our hobby to the […]

Welcome …

… to this winter newsletter. I was going to say spring but that would be a lie. From where I am writing this the mountains have a good covering of snow, but the fruit trees are in blossom, so take your pick! From where I sit there is lot going on in the philatelic world. With fewer stamp collectors around, the burden on the individual organisers (of anything) is large. This applies as much to societies as it does to exhibition committees. Here at Federation, we recognise this, so I see one of our many purposes is to help where we can. So that is how I have ordered this newsletter.

Incorporated Societies Act 2022

I am sure you are aware we all need new constitutions that meet the requirements of the 2022 Act. In fact, we have until 5 April 2026 to have a new constitution in place. How long this takes is a bit like a piece of string. However, more or less concurrently with the issue of this newsletter will be an advice note and a couple of examples. We are trying to assist where we can and there are two approaches to this, either follow the model in the Incorporated Societies website or keep it simple and write your own in plainer English. Be assured – the easy bit seems to be getting approval. The difficult bit is satisfying yourselves that you have got a usable constitution you can work to, getting it through your own committee and then an AGM or similar.

Banking

I am aware many societies really struggle with their banks. It took the best part of 9 months to change the signatories on Federation’s account, so I know what I’m […]