Telegraphic Money Orders were a service offered by the Commonwealth from Federation in 1901. The States had very similar systems in place at that time.
A full presentation of the 1922 Regulations for Telegraphic Money Orders is shown elsewhere.
Commission was charged on Money orders sent within Australia or overseas. The commission was on a sliding scale - for example, in 1909:
Remittances could be made by telegraph to or from money order offices within the Commonwealth which were also telegraph offices or telephone offices or to New Zealand. The charge for a telegraph money order was the cost of the telegram of advice plus the ordinary commission. The remitter must also send a telegram to the payee advising the transmission of the money, which telegram must be produced by the payee when applying for payment.
Examples of Receipts issued to people who had sent Money Orders to others are shown elsewhere: