1938 150th Anniversary - support notes

Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
1938 Australia's 150th Anniversary - instructions on issue.

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Special aspects

The January 1938 Post Office Monthly Circular gave the following information about the issue of the Souvenir telegram form for the Sesqui-Centenary Celebrations in New South Wales:

"Approval has been given for the delivery of telegrams on souvenir telegram forms from certain offices in connection with the Sesqui-Centenary Celebrations in New South Wales during the period 26th January to 25th April 1938.

The Souvenir telegram may be lodged at any telegraph Office in the Commonwealth, but delivery on the special stationery shall be effected only from Post Offices in New South Wales, classified as Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and from the Chief Telegraph Office in each of the other States.

Should a request be made to have delivery effected to an addressee residing in a district but served by a post office of the above mentioned grades or by a Chief Telegraph Office, it will be necessary for the word "post" to be inserted followed by the name of the office from which the telegram will be posted; or, if that name is not known at the office of origin, by the word "nearest".

The supplementary instruction should be counted and charged for as two words.

For the guidance of counter officers accepting souvenir telegrams, hereunder is a list of post offices in New South Wales classified as Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to which such telegrams may be forwarded:-

Newcastle	Lismore	Wagga Wagga
Albury	Armidale	Bathurst	Broken Hill	Canberra	Casino
Cessnock	Cootamundra	Dubbo	Exchange	Goulburn	Grafton
Griffith	Haymarket	Inverell	Katoomba	manly	Marrickville
Moree	Mudgee	Murwillumbah	Newtown	North Sydney	Orange
Oxford Street	Parramatta	Randwick	Tamworth	Taree	Waverley
West Maitland	Wollongong
Ashfield	Auburn	Ballina	Balmain	Bankstown	Bega
Bellingen	Bondi	Bondi Beach	Bourke	Bowral	Broadway
Burwood	Camperdown	Campsie	Canowindra	Canterbury	Castlereagh Street
Chatswood	Cobar	Coff's Harbour	Condobolin	Coogee	Cooma
Coonabarabran	Coonamble

There is no information about how many forms were issued. Certainly there are very few used forms recorded and none known in a tied pair with the delivery envelope.