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). |
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Australia | Misprinted generic telegram delivery envelope missing green and magenta colours (AT-GGE-7A). | |
Australia | Telecom delivery form with misprinted sidemast (AT-DO-15Db). |
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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 | |