AB-RO-5

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. No. 43. Prepaid Reply Telegram.
Message area:	30 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Black on green.
Size of form overall:	129 × 204 mm.

The purpose of this form was to provide a voucher for the reply paid telegram and a transmission form for the reply rather than also provide the originating telegram.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

centre line "Received..." ends with "message";
line above sender details ends with "Tasmania".

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DO-1A	None	4 July 1905 at Burnie.	NC

Where do you want to go next? Return to the top. Previous Reply Paid form (AB-RO-4). Next Reply Paid form (AB-RO-6) In 1928, the combined Reply Paid Form was replaced with a separate Reply Voucher - with a change in Form Number to T.G.43 in parallel to the changes for other forms. Hence when a telegram was received with the words REPLY PAID, one of these vouchers would be issued with the pre-paid amount shown as well as the Office of Origin of the initial telegram.

Printed in June 1929.

AB-RO-5.

Sydney Rail to Woollahra
(22 September 1934).

Characteristics:

the same details and similar format to the ower half of the 1923 form (AB-RO-3A).

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
RO-5	Sch. C.425. 6/1929.	22 September 1934 at Woollahra, NSW.	RR