Press telegrams - overview page

Press telegrams are defined as being "those the text of which consists of political, commercial, etc, information and of news intended for publication in a newspaper. The telegram must be sent by an authorised correspondent and must be addressed to a registered newspaper or recognised news agency".

Regulations 525 to 529 in the 1895 Government Gazette dictated the uses of Press telegrams. Although part of the NSW Regulations, they were fairly standard across all the Colonies and they continued into the Interim period after Federation.

The types of Press forms accessed from this page are:

Transmission forms;
Delivery forms;
International transmission forms.
Rates for Press Telegrams.

Transmission forms

AB-TP-2. Form number E.T. No. 5. Heading in broad sans serif letters and well spaced.
AB-TP-3. Form number T.G. No. 45. Heading in serif letters with normal (narrower) spacing.
AB-TP-4. Form number T.G. 45. Heading in serif font with narrow letters.
AW-TP-5. Form number T.G. 45. PRESS TELEGRAM moved to the left in thick bold letters.
AA-TP-6. Form number T.G.45. Heading in small font with AUSTRALIAN POST OFFICE replacing COMMONWEALTH at top.

Delivery forms.

AE-DP-1. Form number E.T. No. 6.	Hancock P.352
AE-DP-2: Form number E.T. No. 6. Printed in red on cream paper in 1924. Heading is centered and in serif font.
AB-DP-3. Form number changed to T.G. 46. Heading is now RECEIVED PRESS TELEGRAM. Printed in red on light yellow paper about 1933.
AW-DP-4. Heading reduced to PRESS TELEGRAM and COMMONWEALTH ... much smaller. Has a round date stamp. Printed in red on cream to light yellow between 1946 and 1952.

International transmission forms

IAO-TP-1.

Heading is INTERNATIONAL PRESS TELEGRAM.

Has OTC logo.