NI-MO-1

New South Wales - Interim period: 1901-1922.
Telegraphic Money Order forms.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form No. 118. Standard Interim period heading with the addition of "RECEIPT .." sub-heading - often with a printed reference to the issuing office.
Message area:	Not applicable.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Black on white paper.
Size of form overall:	160 × 209 mm.
Size of datestamp box:	26 × 29 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

has name of the Money Order office printed on the form;
has a serrated edge at the left where the form had been torn from the stock book;
the main distinction between the two formats is:
MO-1: has Form 118 in the top right corner;
MO-2: has Form Number M.O. 118 in the top left corner.

NI-MO-1

Carcoar to Sydney
(10 December 1920).

Receipt for the transmission of £5/10/-.

Costs for NSW Colonial Money Order - see Goulburn Evening Penny Post 29 Aug. 1893.

AW-MO-2.

To Fitzroy, Vic from Deniliquin.
(16 August 1949).

Characteristics:

Form number changed to M.O. 118;
no schedule or Stores number;
although used during the War period, the form still maintains the format for the Interim period;
little difference in format from that used in the Interim period.

Details of use and rarity.