Sending Telegraphic Money Order - the notification telegrams.
- Australia 1901-1988
- New South Wales
- Overview of NSW
- Telegraph lines
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- Instructional annotation
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- 1871 Telegraph stamps
- 1885 proposal
- 1893 proposal
After the Money Order form had been lodged and receipted:
- a telegram was sent to the Money Order Office where payment was to be made notifying the details of the receipient and the amount, etc;
- a telegram was sent by the peson sending the Money Order to the recipient notifying them of the proceedings.
Such telegrams are scarce at best. The only known telegrams notifying a Telmo of a payment are those passing through a repeated station. There is only one pair of telegrams recorded for a single Money Order.
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AB-DO-3A. Carrathool to Bendigo (repeated at Wagga Wagga on 26 September 1924). Telegram to Telmo (Telegraphic Money Order Office) at Bendigo advising of a £8 Money Order for Josephine Frances Pinder sent by Joseph Francis Pinder. The Code name was BLOT and the order number was 1206. |
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AB-DO-3A. Carrathool to Bendigo (repeated at Wagga Wagga on 26 September 1924). Telegram to Josephine Frances Pinder advising her of a £8 Money Order to be paid at Bendigo sent by J F Pinder. |
When a telegram was delivered to a recipient informing him/her that a Money Order was waiting at the Post Office, a small docket was often attached to or enclosed with the telegram inside the delivery envelope. These dockets sometimes had a small strip of glue on the reverse side. It is not clear when these dockets were introduced. Examples of these advice dockets from two different times follow:
Size: 36 × 80 mm. |
Size: 44 × 82 mm. |
