Thanks Gazza,
that brings to mind, my time served in the RAN,
divers sent overboard at the wharves at Garden Island,
recovered something like 5x44 gallon drums of knives, forks and spoons
from sailors storing their cutlery in the port hole.


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How do we pronounce Manaia? (Manaya?)

Man - aye - ah

- all run together and with no stress on any syllable

The 'modern gold dredge' on the stamp was very largely a New Zealand
development - used in alluvial deposits of rivers modern and relict.
Subsequently used in Malaya (as it was) for mining tin and in California
and Alaska.

The last NZ dredge was on the West Coast of the South Island - It stopped
in 2004

http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAnd...oldMining/8/en

I don't think they have ever featured on any other NZ stamp.