New South Wales - Interim: 1900-1917.
Press Delivery form: NI-PDO-1.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form No. E.T. 5
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA above POSTMASTER-GENERAL's DEPARTMENT, NEW SOUTH WALES.
Message area: Blue lines and note added vertically at left.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Blue on cream.
Size of form overall: ??.
Size of datestamp box: ??.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
  • Heading combines COMMONWEALTH and NSW references for interim period;
  • Form has widely spaced blue lines;
NSW Wagga Press Form

This form is thought to have come from the large bonfire
lit to destroy "unwanted telegraphic postal material" in the 1990s.

Image kindly supplied by Gary Crocker of Wagga Wagga.


Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number
Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
PDO-1 None 22 December 1922 at Wagga Wagga. RRRRR 
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