Australia: 1854-1988.
Index - P.


 

Topic Relevant Location Description.
Pacific Cable   Bamfield
    Bondi, NSW.
    Fanning Island.
    Fiji
Papua New Guinea. Coastal Radio Stations Port Moresby, Keita and Samarai.
  Samarai The important and very rare 1900 Le Hunte cover
     
Parrish, Jonathan Western Australia Overseer of the Albany-Eucla telegraph line.
Penalties for wilful damage to lines New South Wales Legislation.
People All over Some of the people of importance and relevance to the development of telegraphic comminication on Australia.
Phonograms Australia  
Pigeons South Australia Yorke Peninsula - Althorpe Island to Semaphore.
  New South Wales Flock of pigeons flew into the telegraph wires.
Plants All over Along the Overland Telegraph line.
Poetry Australia I hear you calling me - the Urgent Telegram ballad.
  Western Australia "The Song of the Telegraph" to celebrate the opening of the first line in WA (from Perth to Fremantle).
  Western Australia Mr. W. Graham and his life (and daughters) at the Eyre Telegraph Station.
Pneumatic tubes Victoria Used for expediting telegram messages amongst CBD stations.
Poles, telegraph General Dating photographs from old light poles.
  New South Wales Using trees on private land to make telegraph poles.
Politics
(also see below for Prime Ministers)
New South Wales Telegram from Premier of New Zealand to Premier of NSW concerning the result of the Federation referendum.
  Australia Telegram from Stan Davey to Prime Minister Harold Holt regarding 1967 referendum.
Porterage costs Colonial  
  Commonwealth period Regulations, notification and forms.
Postage stamps Australia For prepayment of telegram rates.
  New South Wales  
  Queensland  
  South Australia  
  Tasmania  
  Victoria  
  Western Australia  
Postal Notes Queensland Use of a postal note for a transmission form.
Postcards Miscellaneous Humorous situations involving telegrams.
Postmarks - slogans Australia Slogans advertising telegrams.
Pre-paid telegrams Australia Types of service, regulations and forms.
Press Telegrams Australia Overview and introduction.
Price, Charles Denvers Western Australia Responsible for the construction of the Albany-Eucla telegraph line.
Prime Ministers Australia Telegrams sent from/to Prime Ministers.
  Australia Telegram to Menzies: Mrs Petrov being abducted.
    Letter sent by Dame Nellie Melba to Rt. Hon. Billy Hughes.
Printing flaws South Australia Error of Printing (REPVATING).
  Tasmania PH. missing from TELEGRAPH
  Australia State Floral Emblems delivery envelope -
2 errors (AA-GCE-3).
  Australia Misprinted generic telegram delivery envelope missing green and magenta colours (AT-GGE-7A).
  Australia Telecom delivery form  with misprinted sidemast
(AT-DO-15Db).
  Australia Delivery envelope with the word printed as Expediate rather then Expedite (AT-DO-20G).
Prisoner of War   See Cable & Wireless form IAC-DO-3B.
Private ownership of the telegraph. South Australia The line of Macgeorge.
Victoria McGowan and his change to the Goverment.
  New South Wales The Albury Telegraph Office.
New South Wales The Moama - Deniliquin line from Echuca.
New South Wales Possibility of a line from Deniliquin to Hay.
  Western Australia W.A. Telegraph Company and the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company.
  Australia AWA and the Coastal Radio and Beam operations.
  England Private ownership until 1870.
  United States Death to Monopoly. Harper's Weekly 1881.
Problems with delivery Messengers Rare example of an inquiry into a delivery problem.
Punctures Australia Defacing stamps paying telegram rates.
  Western Australia Imperial punctures