Is this a New Zealand Censor cachet ?

[John Cranmer]

I collect Canada and at the moment WW2.  I have this letter from Canada to New Zealand with a triangular censor marking which I presume is from New Zealand but I have not been able to find any info about it on the web.

Any info about this will be most welcome especially any web references.

AQ

[Nick Colley]

Hi, John, welcome to the Forum. That triangular mark is quite often seen on mail which travels via the Far East. It's not my speciality, civil censorship, so I can't be sure whether it was used in Hong Kong of Singapore. Hopefully another reader of the Forum can be more useful.

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[Ross Debenham]

Welcome to the forum, John. According to "British Empire Civil Censorship Devices World War II - British Asia" by Konrad Morenweiser, this censor marker is one of a series of Type 6E2 censor markers used in Penang, Malaya between 27 February, 1941 and 6 December, 1941.

[John Cranmer]

Thank you for that I will ask Konrad for his comments.

AQ

[Chris Grimshaw]

Hi John

Welcome to the Forum

Outside my area but interesting material nevertheless.

Chris

[Nick Colley]

Ah, Penang, was it? Ha! I was in error with both locations then :-) Sorry.

[John Cranmer]

Once again thanks for the info. 

I do have a followup question which is what would have been the routing to get to Penang.  I have found some info re air mail routes but this is a surface mail cover and Penang seems a bit out of the way.  Were there established surface mail routes as there were air mail ones ?.

I am looking forward to the on line meeting on Saturday as I would not have got to a meeting in person as it would have been too far from Yorkshire but Zoom makes it easy and I have a cover to show as well.

Stay safe

John

[Alexander Green]

Not doubting Morenweiser, but a Penang marking sounds unusual.

Malcolm H Wade writing in The Malayan Philatelist, Vol 22, No 2 , March-April 1981, p.22 "Civilian Censorship of mail in Malaya, 1939-42" suggests this is a Singapore marking, which would make more sense. 

[John Cranmer]

Alex

I think that Singapore censor is an exact match to the example I have and I will work with that,  The censor number and date also agree with the listing you posted.  It is a shame that there are no other dates on the cover to show when it passe through Singapore.  I assume it was mid October.

Thank you very much for your help

John,