Australia - Establishment period: 1917-1922.
Reply Paid form: AE-RO-1.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number E. T. No. 10 which was then changed to E.T. No. 3.
REPLY PAID TELEGRAM on top section and PREPAID REPLY TELEGRAM on lower section.
Message area: Blank in top section.
30 boxes in 6 lines in lower section.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on grey.
Size of form overall: 252 × 206 mm. Top section 131.5 mm high.
Size of datestamp box: 26 × 32 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
AE-RO-1A.

Top section for initiating telegram from Onyen to Maryborough
(19 September 1922).

Characteristics:

  • Form number E.T. No. 10 continued from the Interim period forms.

First line of handwriting contains the letters RP denoting Reply Paid.

Shows serrations below which the Reply Paid section and mwssag would have been recorded. The lower section would have been rtained at the Telegraph Office.

Printed in October 1921.		 AE-RO-1B.

Complete reply paid telegram sent from Melbourne to Maryborough, Vic (7 July 1923).

Characteristics:

  • Form number changed to E.T. No. 10;
  • two sections to be separated across the perforations;
  • top section is original telegram and ends with the words "REPLY PAID" as required;
  • lower section records the money already paid for the reply (here 1/-) and is used to record the reply message for transmission;
  • the heading is very similar to that used for the 1921 delivery forms.

The only recorded complete partially used Reply Paid form from the Establishment period.

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
RO-1A Not known. 19 September 1922 at Maryborough.

RRRR as a complete form.

RR as one section.
RO-1B B.1130/10.21. - C15876. - 50M. 3 July 1923 at Maryborough, Vic.