New South Wales: Interim period: 1900-1917.
Delivery form: NI-DO-6.
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number E.T. No. 1.
Standard Interim period heading.
Message area: 7 very faint lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Dull blue on cream.
Size of form overall: 170 × 214 mm.
Size of datestamp box: 38 × 38 mm.
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
       
       
       
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NI-DO-6Aa NI-DO-6A.

Brisbane to Oxford Street NSW
24 July 1909.

Characteristics:

  • first printing (one arc);
  • two vertical lines of text at left "Note: - the figures at the bottom ...";
  • very small font under TELEGRAM for "This message ...";
  • 7 faint lines for message.

 
NI-DO-6Ab NI-DO-6B.

Rockhampton to Sydney
(Telegraph Branch
5 April 1911).

Characteristics:

  • first printing (one arc);
  • one vertical line of text at left "Note: - the figures at the bottom ...";
  • larger font (2 mm) under TELEGRAM for "This message ...";
  • 7 faint lines for message.

 

Has very large DELAYED BY INTERRUPTION TO LINE hand stamp in violet.

Telegram has words in code which have been interpreted.
NI-DO-6Ac NI-DO-6C.

Brisbane to Oxford Street NSW
(24 July 1909).

Characteristics:

  • first printing;
  • one vertical lines of text at left "Note: - the figures at the bottom ...";
  • larger font under TELEGRAM for "This message ...";
  • no printed lines for message.
NI-DO-6Ba NI-DO-6D.

St. Arnaud, Vic to Yass.
5 August 1915.

Characteristics:

  • second printing (two arcs after schedule number and above WALES);
  • one line of vertical text at left;
  • 8 lines for message.

There is no difference in format between this form and that below. Here the form has been slightly over-inked during printing. The seven lines in the message area are so heavy that the dots join and can be only seen as dots for a few mm in parts.
NI-DO-6Bb NI-DO-6D (same form as above).

Dubbo to Obley.
20 November 1918.

NOTE: Not a different format but a different printing day or location.

The message area has seven lines of dots which are quite distinct.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-6A St 3481 24 July 1909 at Oxford Street, NSW. NC
DO-6B St. 3481 9 March 1911 at Bondi, NSW. C
DO-6C St. 3481 24 July 1909 at Oxford Street, NSW. NC
DO-6D St. 3481 5 August 1915 at Yass, NSW NC