Category: Northern Rhodesia
Universal Postal Union
Universal Postal Union
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN), established in 1947, that regulates international mail services with its headquarters at Bern, Switzerland.
Established in 1875 following adoption of the Universal Postal Convention, it is one of the oldest extant international governmental organisations. The Universal Postal Congress, the governing body, usually meets every four years to discuss and adopt a world postal strategy and consider the activities of the executive council, whose 40 members are elected on a geographical basis and meet yearly.
The UPU consists of:
- 4 bodies
- The Congress
- The Council of Administration (CA)
- The Postal Operations Council (POC)
- The International Bureau (IB)
- 2 cooperatives
- Telematics Cooperative
- EMS Cooperative
Countries that belong to the union form a unified postal territory with easy international exchange of mail. The union also provides technical assistance and advice in attempts to improve postal service, especially in developing countries. It facilitates the development of the contemporary postal network which, in addition to the traditional delivery of mail, also includes electronic and financial services. The UPU has 192 member nations.
Events
Stamp Issues
- Malawi
- Northern Rhodesia
- Nyasaland
- Rhodesia
- Southern Rhodesia
- Zambia
References
Royal Art Studio
Royal Art Studio
Lusaka
Royal Art Studio are suppliers of fine photographic equipment, quality colour film processing and express passport photo service.
Postcards
Postcards: Royal Art Studio – Type I
Royal Art Studio
Type I
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | Charter House, Lusaka. | |
| N/A | Kafue River Road Bridge. | |
| N/A | Victoria Falls Bridge, Livingstone. | 17/03/1954 |
| N/A | Victoria Falls, Livingstone. | 02/07/1953 |
J Levison
Postcards: J Levison – K Ltd – Type II
North Western Hotel
North Western Hotel
Livingstone
The Northwestern Hotel was built in 1907 by Mrs and Mr Freddie Mills. It was actually the second hotel of that name; the previous North Western Hotel built in 1906 by railway contractors Pauling and Co was converted into government offices.
Activities such as dances and public meetings took place there and the hotel is said to have opened the first multi-racial bar in the town in 1961.
In 1947 it was owned outright by the Hitchins family and was run as a successful business by the family Matriarch until the 1990s. Since then it had been through several transformations, from hotel to trading centre, to shops and offices but no longer exists as a hotel.
The Hitchins family still owns the building, which is listed as a national monument, a status which prohibits substantial modernisation.
Postcards
Postcards: G H Addecott & Co Ltd – Type I
Imprint stamp is seen in both red and purple.
Details
- Publisher: G H Addecott & Co Ltd
- Distributor:
- Printer: G H Addecott & Co Ltd
- Process: Real Photo Card
- Photographer:
- Year: 1950s
- Series: Type I
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | Abercorn Street (looking North towards 9th Avenue), Bulawayo. | |
| N/A | Alan Wilson Memorial, Matopos | |
| N/A | Eighth Avenue, Bulawayo looking towards the High Court | |
| N/A | Main Falls, Victoria Falls | |
| N/A | Rhodes Grave, Matopos. | |
| N/A | Victoria Falls |
Roman Catholic Church: St Anthony’s Mission (ZA)
Roman Catholic Church
St. Anthony’s Mission (Zambia)
St Anthony’s Catholic mission was originally run by Italians, who laid a water system throughout the village, fed by two large water tanks, planted a vineyard, planted trees for lumber, and ran a rather well equipped mission hospital. They had, at one time, a landing strip, hydroelectric power and an x-ray machine. The government took this over at some point and appropriated most of the equipment for use elsewhere. The Italians, according to locals, ripped up the vineyards and much of the pipes for the water system before they left.
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- 30.12.1973
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- 24.11.1975
The mission is currently run by a Zambian priest and several sisters. They are heavily cooperative with the hospital, which has been resupplied to a lesser degree, and serves as a main clinic for the area. They provide weekly health services to various outreach stations including child health (weighing, vaccinating, deworming), giving health talks, handing out condoms and other things.
St Anthony’s is also one of several purchasing points after the harvest, where maize is purchased from the village farmers for cash and piled for transport to processing centres. The school is rather large for a rural school and has been involved in international penpal programmes, as well as a carpentry program aided by the US Peace Corps and the International and Luanshya Rotary Club.
St Anthony’s has a small market on most days, where vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage and onions) can be bought. The mission runs a store with some other amenities, but this is not open all the time.
Facilities
- St Anthony’s Mission Poultry
- St Anthony’s Mission School
- Mpongwe Mission Hospital
References
Northern Produce and Livestock Company
Northern Produce and Livestock Company
Lusaka
The Northern Produce and Livestock Company was set-up by Henrie Kollenberg in 1930. Kollenberg was a Latvian Jew who came from a prominent trader family in Northern Rhodesia. He a farmer and trader in Lusaka.
References
- An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers & Wulfsohn, 1901-2005 – Hugh MacMillan
Contributors
- Walter Herdzik