Tasmania.
Telegraph Offices in the north-east region.
Avoca.

Avoca (formerly Saint Pauls Plains) Post Office opened on 1 June 1832. It was renamed Avoca in 1837.

The Telegraph Office was opened in 1876.

 Avoca
23 May 1916.

Beaconsfield.

The Telegraph Office was opened in 1881.

  

Fingal

The Telegraph Office opened in 1876.

The Post Office had opened on 1 June 1832.

  

Lottah.

The Telegraph Office was opened

Very complex naming - http://tps.org.au/bb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=256

 Lottah PO
Ringarooma.

The Post Office opened on 1 October 1874. In the early days, it was also referred to as Maurice.

The Telegraph Office was opened about 1884.
Date stamps used on Telegrams were basic postal cancellers and included:
  1. circular date stamp.
    Diameter: 24 mm.
    No separation marks.
    2 line date.
    TAS followed by a colon (:).

 

 Ring 1914
12 November 1914.
Used on TI-DU- 		 
  1. Circular date stamp.
    Diameter: 30 mm.
    6 mm side arcs.
    TAS. at the base.

Rated: Common

 Ring 1950
21 September 1950.
Used on a telegram piece. 		 
Scottsdale.

The Telegraph Office opened in 1882.

The Post Office opened on 29 November 1865 as Ellesmere and changed name to Scottsdale in 1893.

The earliest recorded telegram was sent from Scottsdale (not Ellesmere) to Launceston on 11 August 1884.

 

 Scottsdale
Scottsdale PO Scottsdale Scottsdale on 2d KGV.
18 June 1937.
Straight line Office handstamps were used at Scottsdale in the late 1890s at least:  
HS 1896
Serif letters (3 mm high) - used on TC-DO-5A on 26 August 1896
(the earliest recorded date for this form).		 Serif 1897Sans serif letters (5 mm high) - used on TC-DO-5A on 5 November 1897.
 

SC 1896
26 August 1896.

Diameter: 24 mm
2 line date.
Open circle separation marks.

Used on TC-DO-5D.

Sc 1937
18 June 1937.
Postal date stamp.

7 mm separation arcs.
Diameter: 29 mm.

SC 1943
26 October 1943.
1 line date.
5 mm separation arcs.

Used on AW-DO-

St. Helens.

Telegraph lines from Falmouth ran in 1876 and TO opened. (A land coach service was also opened in 1876).

Georges Bay Post Office opened on 1 April 1869 and was renamed St. Helen's in 1882.

The earliest recorded telegram to St. Helens is on 21 December 1874 from Green Ponds (TC-TO-3B).

St. Marys.

St. Patrick's Head Post Office opened on 1 June 1835. It was renamed Cullenswood in 1849 and St. Marys in 1869.

The Telegraph Office was opened in 1876.

Windmill Hill.

A telegram is noted in Ingles (1975, p109, 117) with the only known date stamp.

Two others are confirmed: the 1935 shown here and a 28 June 1943 used on AW-DO-9A.

Rated: RRRR.

WH 1935
26 March 1935.

Used on AB-DO-8E.