2533. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Celebrates National Rugby Team Centenary.

 

New issues -

7 August 2024 - Centenary of The Invincibles’ (New Zealand  rugby team) tour of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Canada - 4 stamps (cost of set NZ$16.40) and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps (cost $16.40). Designed by Hannah Fortune and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

20 July 2024 - Installation of HM KeBawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XVII Sultan Ibrahim - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇸 Postal service of South Sudan -

9 July 2024 - 13th anniversary of Independence - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet (as described in Blog 2527). This issue was originally intended to be released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Independence but circumstances in the country did not allow this to be possible at the time. 

  Thanks to Leo Van der Velden, who is an excellent and highly reliable source of the new issues of Uganda and South Sudan on internet auction sites, all at an excellent price, I have added to my collection a variant of the SSP5000 value of this recently released issue. This features a chimpanzee rather than a turtle with a bar through the value and is a stamp which was not issued, the turtle design being preferred instead. 

  Leo has reported that no further new issues are expected from South Sudan during the course of 2024.