2442. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Issue Depicts Marine Invertebrates.

 

New issues.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

7 February 2024 - Marine reserves - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Hannah Fortune and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- **.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any postage stamps so far in 2024 -

The philatelic entities included in the list at the start of 2024 are:-

Aitutaki Cook Islands

Alderney

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Ascension Island 

Australia *

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Bahamas 

Bangladesh *

Barbados 

Belize

Bermuda 

Botswana 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon 

Canada *

Cayman Islands 

Christmas Island Australia *

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Australia 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cyprus 

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Falkland Islands *

Fiji

Gabon 

The Gambia 

Ghana 

Gibraltar 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guernsey *

Guyana 

India *

Isle of Man *

Jamaica 

Jersey *

Kenya 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Malaysia *

Maldives 

Malta 

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Namibia

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand 

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga,

Niue

Norfolk Island Australia *

Pakistan *

Papua New Guinea 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa 

Seychelles 

Sierra Leone 

Singapore 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa *

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 

Sri Lanka 

Togo

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tristan Da Cunha 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland *

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Newspapers in Zimbabwe were reporting in December that it is expected that the country will be readmitted to membership of The Commonwealth in the first part of 2024 in time for the country’s full participation at the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) to be held in Samoa in autumn 2024 and so Zimbabwe may have to be added to the above list as the year proceeds.

The above list therefore presently includes 88 Commonwealth philatelic entities for 2024 (again Mozambique is not included as it has no functioning national postal service) and up to the end of January, 14 of them (indicated by asterisks) or 15.9% are known to have issued postage stamps during 2024. This compares with a figure of 19 (21.6%) at the end of January 2023.