The Telegraph Office opened on 1 June 1878. On 1 September 1886, the Post & Telegraph Mistress was Emily Theresa Karara. |
The Telegraph Office was opened on 9 October 1865 and it merged with the Post Office on 19 November 1868. The Post Office had opened on 1 January 1847. |
Cootamundra.
The Post & Telegraph Office at Cootamundra was opened on See the need for a horse at Cootamundra elsewhere. |
Cootamundra P&T. |
A steel circular TELEGRAPHS COOTAMUNDRA type 2C date stamp was issued to the Office.
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The Post Office at Dalton was opened on 1 May 1863. The Telegraph Office opened on 22 August 1892 and merged with the Post Office the following day. |
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Dalton PO with no sign of telegraph so the photo was probably taken before the 1890s. |
see http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18703330?searchTerm=telegraph hay 1864&searchLimits=l-availability=y also 1881 Vic report p. 15. and also this report. A report in the Argus of 3 November 1881 gives an insight into the way Gabo Island was viewed by the Victorian and NSW governments: "the rupture of the telegraph cable to Gabo Island has occasioned some doubt as to the responsibility of the Victorian Government in the matter. It appears, however, that this colony has nothing whatever to do with telegraphic communication to that island, the lighthouse and telegraph station being entirely under the control of the New South Wales Government. Victoria simply contributes an annual sum towards the lighthouse maintenance. No correspondence has taken place between the two Governments on the subject of the telegraphic interruption, and if the Government of New South Wales determines upon abandoning the Gabo cable in favour of one to Green Cape, this colony has no power to interfere". |
The Post & Telegraph Office had opened at Ten Mile Creek on 13 January 1873. Tenders called for the "Erection of a Court House and a Telegraph Station at Ten Mile Creek" closed on 28 October 1873. On 1 May 1875, the name Ten Mile Creek was changed to Germanton. Then another change of name to Holbrook was effected on 20 September 1915. Through the influence of the World War, Germanton was deemed to be unpatriotic by many people. |
A Post Office was opened at Gunning on 1 October 1840. It closed on 30 June 1854. A Telegraph Office was opened on 17 March 1875. It was upgraded to a Post & Telegraph Office on 15 June 1882. |
The Telegraph Station was opened on 7 May 1864, The Post Office had been oened on 22 February 1861 on the change of name from Lang's Crossing Place. |
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Cover sent to the "TELEGRAPH OFFICE" in Kiama from Sydney on 17 February 1864. |
The Telegraph Office opened on 2 April 1883. The Robertson Advocate of 5 August 1902 notes that "the tender of Mr. E. Cochs (£131/10s) has been accepted for alterations and repairs to the Mittagong Poet and Telegraph Office " (actually the article had it correct; the scan by Trove confused the word and I could not bring myself to change it :-). |
The Telegraph Office opened on 29 June 1876 separate from the Post Office. The Post Office opened on 22 March 1860 when it changed its name from Merrimboolla which had been opened about two months previously on 1 January 1860 |
The Telegraph Office opened on 1 October 1878. |
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The office used a rubber circular TELEGRAPHS date stamp (RC1 - T):
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A Telegraph Station was opened at Tumut on 11 March 1861. It was probably only a repeater station and it used the call sign UN. Some reports indicate that a combined Post & Telegraph Office was opened by 1870 in the Telegraph building. Other reports nominate the amalgamation occurring on 4 September 1876. |
Wollongong.
Hopson & Tobin do not list a Telegraph Office as ever opening at Wollongong. The 1863 Report by Cracknell shows that the 58 mile line from Campbelltown to Wollongong and Kiama cost £2,830 8s 2d and that the Wollongong office opened on 11 August 1862. |
The Illawarra Mercury of 22 July 1862 carried the following:
Tenders were called for :
Tenders were ultimately accepted on 25 October 1890 for the erection of a P&T Office in Wollongong. See also the need for a horse at Wollongong elsewhere. |
Two formats for a rubber circular TELEGRAPH OFFICE date stamp are known:
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3 February 1943. |
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13 October 1945. |
Young.
The Telegraph Office opened on 4 July 1867. It was merged with the Post Office, which had opened on 23 January 1863, on which date its name was changed from Lambing Flat. Tenders called for the "Erection of a Telegraph Station at Young" closed on 15 July 1873. A Type 1A date stamp, which has been used for postal purposes between 1867 and 1880 was used on telegrams between 1910 and 1914. |
Young postal date stamp. 15 December 1941. Cancelling a McCracken imprint block of 4 and with a slogan cancel for: Happy Thoughts ! Christmas and New Year Greetings by Telegram. |