MO sending - notif telegrams

Australia.
Sending Telegraphic Money Order - the notification telegrams.

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Special aspects

After the Money Order form had been lodged and receipted:

a telegram was sent to the Money Order Office where payment was to be made notifying the details of the receipient and the amount, etc;
a telegram was sent by the peson sending the Money Order to the recipient notifying them of the proceedings.

Such telegrams are scarce at best. The only known telegrams notifying a Telmo of a payment are those passing through a repeated station. There is only one pair of telegrams recorded for a single Money Order.

AB-DO-3A.

Carrathool to Bendigo (repeated at Wagga Wagga on 26 September 1924).

Telegram to Telmo (Telegraphic Money Order Office) at Bendigo advising of a £8 Money Order for Josephine Frances Pinder sent by Joseph Francis Pinder.

The Code name was BLOT and the order number was 1206.

AB-DO-3A.

Carrathool to Bendigo (repeated at Wagga Wagga on 26 September 1924).

Telegram to Josephine Frances Pinder advising her of a £8 Money Order to be paid at Bendigo sent by J F Pinder.

When a telegram was delivered to a recipient informing him/her that a Money Order was waiting at the Post Office, a small docket was often attached to or enclosed with the telegram inside the delivery envelope. These dockets sometimes had a small strip of glue on the reverse side. It is not clear when these dockets were introduced. Examples of these advice dockets from two different times follow:

Label 1955
Printed in October 1955.

Size: 36 × 80 mm.
Has a small vertical strip of glue on the left side.

Label FAP
Printed after the TX code was introduced in 1968.

Size: 44 × 82 mm.