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Those of us involved in organised philately wear many hats, whether for our local society, our collecting passion, perhaps in a special interest group.  For me it has been full on since the new year as your president and even more time consuming as jury chair of Royalpex 2025.  So, in this issue I would like to reflect on what exhibitions mean to us.  But first a shout-out to new members.

New Members

It is not often we can welcome new members but at our 20th February meeting of the NZPF our executive approved membership applications from Kerikeri Stamp Club and Howick Stamp Club.  We applaud your decision to join Federation and hope that you get support from being members and in turn collectors up and down the country support Howick and Kerikeri.  This brings the membership up to 40 clubs and societies.

Royalpex 2025

Held in early March in Palmerston North this exhibition had the usual mix of NZ Post stand, dealers, exhibits and most importantly people.  I have not been to a “proper” NZ national since Dunedin in 2018 (I missed WPS100 in Wellington), so for me it was great to catch up with philatelic friends and see where their exhibiting had taken them.

Organising committee chairman Paul McTaggart introduces the mayor of Palmerston North Grant Smith to open the show.

We had become used to almost annual exhibitions and then along came COVID and scuppered quite a few events and took the wind out of our sails.  It has been a struggle to get everything back on its feet and most of us would say that it will never be the same again.  However, in Palmy there were […]

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

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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 […]