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Meetings
Wednesday Group: St Davids Church Lounge, corner Main/Rainforth Streets, Palmerston North 1st Wednesday monthly at 7:30pm. Visitors are always welcome Please bring items of interest for display to each meeting

The Manawatu Philatelic Society also proudly supports:
Palmerston North Junior Stamp Club in abeyance, contact secretary for details; and
Ashhurst Junior Stamp Club in abeyance.
 
Programme 2011/12
Jun 1Dave Bull Australia George V 1d Green
Jul 6Pim Cup 1-frame club competition; Colin Dyer The Rise and Fall of Germany - Deutschland at War
Aug 3Peter Evans Rust Never Sleeps
Sep 7Mowbray Collectables Auction Preview and talk; 8-page competition for local inter-club
Oct 5Jenny Banfield Medicine - Its History and Development
Nov 2Club Auction; Members' Night This is What I Collect
Nov 7Monday - Interclub Eight page competition at Levin
Dec 7Christmas Meeting; Ray Mulholland Cinderellas
Jan 4Informal President's Night BBQ hosted by Clace Schwabe
Feb 1Clace Schwabe France - WWI Correspondence
Mar 7Jim Kirk Macaws - Winged Rainbows
Mar 17Convention - displays and dealers' tables; society meeting
Apr 4Annual General Meeting; speaker and topic to be advised
May 2Ken Markham Stamps, mails and ephemera - a window on NZ's early European history
  
Circuit
The Society currently has circuits in abeyance. Please contact Bruce 06 354 0917 (evenings) for an update on this.
 
Library
Members have access to New Zealand's third largest philatelic library. Housed in the Manawatu Science Centre and Museum. All members are issued with library cards which must be worn whenever they wish to use the library.

 
National Philatelic Literature Exhibition Library Holding
Members of New Zealand societies have access to the material exhibited in the biennial literature exhibits held in Palmerston North. These publications are held as part of the Manawatu Philatelic Society's library and information on who and how material can be borrowed should be addressed to the Librarian at the Society's address detailed below.

Details of these holdings for each exhibition can be accessed at:
          First Exhibition 1989;
          Second Exhibition 1991;
          Third Exhibition 1993;
          Fourth Exhibition 1995;
          Fifth Exhibition 1997;
          Sixth Exhibition 1999;
          Seventh Exhibition 2001;
          Eighth Exhibition 2003.
          Ninth Exhibition 2005.
          Tenth Exhibition 2007.
          Eleventh Exhibition 2009.
          Twelfth Exhibition 2011.
 
Subscriptions
Annual Subscriptions are as follows:
Town members (24 km radius from city centre) $30.00
Country members $20.00
 
Contacts
Secretary, P O Box 206, Palmerston North Central, Palmerston North 4440
Phone 06 358 4565 E-mail: mps@inspire.net.nz
 
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