Topic | Relevant Location | Description. |
Handstamps | To record TO places and dates or to record a message. | Maryborough Rail, Victoria. |
Delayed messages. | Telegraph Advice. | |
Harvey, Mr. W. | Tasmania | Orders for cases of Gin. |
Health | Victoria | Use of telegrams to notify authorities of communicable disease. |
Use of two international delivery forms (IAX-DO-4) to record a long message about a homeopathic preparation Elasto. | ||
U.S.A. | Possibly the first Telehealth Conference. | |
Hermes | Australia | Logo on telegrams in Brown era. |
Image on stamps paying the basic telegram rate in 1949. | ||
History of the telegraph | Some early stories and references. | |
Holidays - public | Tasmania and all other colonies | The importance of the telegraph in facilitating oublic holidays. |
Holt, Harold | Telegram to Prime Minister Holt in 1967. | |
Horses | South Australia | Use and cost for telegram delivery. |
Horse racing | Australia | General comments (under construction - suggestions welcomed). |
Australia | Using telegrams to influence betting in Western Australia; | |
Use of telegrams to send results of races. | ||
Use of Press Telegrams to convey racing information. | ||
New South Wales | Telegraph Office at Randwick Racecourse. | |
Leaking information about the Melbourne Cup from the Corowa Office. | ||
South Australia | Special Telegraph Office at Peterborough in 1913. | |
Tasmania | Results 2 days after cable operational. | |
Victoria | Telegraph Office at Flemington Racecourse. | |
Lines to Victorian Telegraph Offices. | ||
Turf Agents use of Reply-Paid telegrams. | ||
Western Australia | Black Flag racecourse opened and had new regulations for colours. | |
Humour | Miscellaneous | Humorous situations depicted involving telegrams. |
Hungerford | Queensland or New South Wales - take your pick! | A town with a varied past which just kept keeping on:)!!! |