Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
Reply paid delivery voucher: AB-RO-5.

 
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. No. 43.
Prepaid Reply Telegram.
Message area: 30 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on green.
Size of form overall: 129 × 204 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 In 1928, the combined Reply Paid Form was replaced with a separate Reply Voucher - with a change in Form Number to T.G.43 in parallel to the changes for other forms. Hence when a telegram was received with the words REPLY PAID, one of these vouchers would be issued with the pre-paid amount shown as well as the Office of Origin of the initial telegram.
AB-RO-5
Printed in June 1929.
AB-RO-5.

Sydney Rail to Woollahra
(22 September 1934).

Characteristics:

  • the same details and similar format to the ower half of the 1923 form (AB-RO-3A).

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number
Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
RO-5 Sch. C.425. 6/1929. 22 September 1934 at Woollahra, NSW. RR