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Vo1.18 No. /NOV. 1999 Vo1.18 No. /NOV. 1999 ! : ; .: : •••••••••• ! ••••••••••••••••••• ••••••• ••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • ••• · • • •••••• : ::..... • • •••••• • ••••• • •• • • • • •••••• • • • • • • • •••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •• • • • • • • •• ...• • ••••• • •• ••••••• •••• • . .. •. •• Journal of the Philatelic Society Of Canberra The Philatelic Society of Canberra Inc. (Founded 1932) GPO BOX 1840 CANBERRA ACT 2601 President Albert Farrugia Secretary Graeme Broxam Capital Philately Publication Committee Darryl Fuller (Editor) "Dingle" Smith (Business Manager) Graeme Broxam Ian McMahon Further information on the Philatelic Society of Canberra may be found on: http://www.canbelTa.starway.net.au/~philatelic Capital Philately is published quarterly and supplied free to members ofthe Society, inquiries Regarding membership are welcome and should be addressed to Graeme Broxam, Telephone (02) 6282 4602 (home) Inquiries regarding subscription rates for Capital Philately, advertising rates, the purchase of back issues etc. should be addressed to Dingle Smith. He can be contacted by telephone on (02) 6254 3294 (h) or bye-mail addressed to [email protected] Advertising rates are: full page $40, half page $25, quarter page $15. There is a 20% reduction on all rates for 4 consecutive issues. Articles, letters and other. contributions to Capital Philately should be sent to the Editor. Either By mail to the Society address, telephone (02) 6251 2180 (h) or e-mail addressed to dany [email protected] The Society gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian Philatelic Federation and the ACT Philatelic Council COPYRIGHT: the copyright of the contents of Capital Philately is held by the Philatelic Society of Canberra Inc. Material may only be reproduced with the written consent of the Editor. Cover Design © Judith Parker ISSN 0729-8765 11 CAPITAL PHILATELY NOVEMBER 1999 - VOL. 18, NO.1 Editorial 1 Members' Exhibition Results 2 Australian Electoral Business - A Social Philately Exhibit (part 2) 3 Hans Karman Kiwis In The Library Ian McMahon 13 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1939-1957: Pioneering and Historic Aviation Links and their Philatelic Consequences (Part 2) Kim Dwyer 15 Book Review: Introducing Combi-Mail: Aeropostal History 23 Darryl Fuller Hunting for Dodos Darryl Fuller 24 EDITORIAL Welcome to my second year as editor of Capital Philately. I was pleased to see that the journal received a silver medal at Adelaide Stampex and was one point off a large silver. It is always important to have your efforts judged by your peers, and given that this is the journal of a philatelic society and not a specialised journal full of in-depth studies, I believe that we continue to maintain a very creditable standard and I would like to thank all of the contributors who have made my task easier. On the topic of exhibitions you will note the excellent results obtained by members of the Society. We continue to maintain an excellent tradition and in my opinion are going from strength to strength. On a purely statistical basis members of the society provided ten of the 128 exhibits and four of the 15 literature entries. Thus we provided some 8% of the exhibits and 27% of the literature entries. The latter all being journals. Not bad for a society of about 170 members. The results run the whole gamut from silver bronze to one of the major awards. A number of these exhibits were new and I would encourage other members of the Society to consider exhibiting at our convention in March next year. As I am fond of saying, exhibiting is the one challenge that gets my collections organised. Further to next March's exhibition I would like to emphasise the importance of these events to the Society. They are a great deal of hard work and I for one don't get involved to stroke my own ego. Over the years they have been an important source of revenue for the Society. As those who were at the AGM will realise, our subscription fees do not cover our costs. Our biennial exhibitions have raised significant amounts of money and next year is likely to be the same. So please get involved by exhibiting, joining the supporter's club or volunteering to help. We need your support. The other important aspect of exhibitions is that they bring in new members. At least a dozen new members have been attracted because of Natstamp last year, including our current treasurer. If we can continue this tend not only will the Society begin to grow but we should also be able to keep the subscriptions from rising. So please, think beyond your own needs and pitch in to help. If you are unsure of the best way to help give me call when I am wearing my other hat as Chairman of the Organising Committee for Canberra Stampshow 2000, or call the Secretary Judy Kennet. This issue of Capital Philately will be two weeks late, for which I apologise, but being President of the Society, editor and the chairman of Canberra Stampshow 2000 has proven too big a task recently. Having stepped down as President has given me some breathing space. I had hoped to have revamped Capital Philately for this issue but any major changes will have to wait until after the exhibition next year. You will also notice that this issue has less contributors than usual but this is in part because I have not had the time to chase a few regulars for material and because I decided that both the Voting and Cocos articles would be best split into two parts only. They are both based on Social Philately exhibits and are quite interesting. I hope that you enjoy the final parts and I always Volume 18 Number I Capital Philately welcome feedback. f can promise that the next '. .... postcards and Machins d . h I k Issue will have more Interestmg articles including interesting. an WIt uc, the first part of a reminiscing article that promises to be ~fease also rememb.er that I am always after material. Not just long articles but also one pagers or es~ that yo~ fe~1 mIght. be of interest to other readers. New discoveries, your favourite cover, book reviews or Just mteresting facts are always welcome. I would particularlv welcome "Found in the Trash" contributions which in this issue is missing but replaced by a new category which I have titled "Hunting for Dodos" the search for the impossible. MEMBERS' EXHIBITION RESULTS SIXTH NEW ZEALAND NA TIONAL PHILATELIC LITERATURE EXHIBITION IN CONJUNCTION WITH PALMPEX, PALMERSTON NORTH, 1-3 OCT. 1999 Richard Peck and David Ingle Smith (eds), based on the 1983 work of D. Osborn, W D Craig and A E Orchard Priced Catalogue of New South Wales Revenue and Railway Stamps Silver Postal Stationery Society of Australia (editor, Ian McMahon) Postal Stationery Collector Volume 4 Silver Bronze ADELAIDE STAMP EX 99 5-7 NOVEMBER 1999 Darryl Fuller Leeward Island Postal Stationery Large Gold (92) & Grand Prix International Tom Frommer Famous Pilots and Famous Flights Large Vermeil (87) plus Special Prize Andrew Alwast Kingdom of Poland Pre-stamp Letters Large Vermeil (80) "Dingle" Smith Australian Tax Stamps - Depression to Federal Income Tax Vermeil (78) Andrew Alwast Poland's 1946 Airmail Stamps Vermeil (77) Darryl Fuller Jusqu'a Airmail Markings Vermeil (75) PSSA (Ian McMahon ed.) Postal Stationery Collector Large Silver (74) Hans Karman Windmills (Post cards) Silver (69) PSC Inc. (Darryl Fuller ed.) Capital Philateiy Silver (69) Hubert Goron New Hebrides (post cards) Silver (67) The Aerogramme Society (Tom Adami ed.) AerogrammeR Silver (67) Hans Karman Dutch Postal Stationery Silver (65) Albert Farrugia (ed.) "Machinations' A journal for collectors of G.B. Machins Silver Bronze (61) "Dingle" Smith Water - the resource and its use Silver Bronze (60) CANBERRA PICTURE POSTCARD COLLECTORS Open to anyone in Canberra not just members ofthe Philatelic Society of Canberra. Cost $15 per annum . (Includes Pastcards. the quarterly journal, which illustrates cards exhibited at the monthly meetmgs.) . Postal Auctions Meetings on the second Tuesday of each month from 7.45pm to 9.30pm plus Room 5 Griffin Centre Bunda Street Canberra Citv Volume 18 Number 1 2 Capital Philately Australian Electoral Business A Social Philately Exhibit (Part 2 continued from Volume 17 Number 4) Hans Karman (Editor: Please note that all of the illustrations in part 2 are 80% of actual size) Frame 3: Elections In the third frame I deal with the mechanics and problems of an election in progress. After a writ is issued for an election, all Electoral offices are notified by urgent telegram (Fig.9). SE 160= MLY 140= VCAD175 = CANBERRA ACT 25 4P DIVISIONAL RETURNING OFFICER FOTI SEADDON BURNIE 'US WRIT ~EPRESENTATIVES ELECTION ISSUED TODAY NOMINATIONS TENTH Figure 9 Urgent telegram, Canberra-Burnie announcing House of Representatives Election 2 Dec. 1972. People in remote locations, or housebound, or several other reasons, can apply through the post office for a postal voting certificate (in the form of an envelope) and ballot paper. These are sent out free, and after completion can be returned free through the mail. Postal voting certificates and votes were tracked carefully: they were sent registered and a separate advice card made doubly sure that they were not mislaid. Electioneering started and in general candidates pulled no punches. When voting was in a referendum the sides could be particularly vicious (Fig. 10). Voting in Australia is compulsory and if a vote was not recorded a voter would be asked to explain and could be filled. In some cases explanations were supported by a plea from the employer (Fig. I I). Merchant seaman sometimes had great difficulty getting either a postal vote, or an opportunity to vote because of the itinerant nature of their work (Fig.12). Voting facilities were also not always easy to arrange in remote locations: when floods isolated Alice Springs, ballot papers had to be sent by air, but the air service was limited to one plane each way each week.
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