Australia - 1917-1988.
Improvised Cablegram delivery forms.
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
International
Special aspects
Improvised Cablegram delivery forms.
- Australia 1901-1988
- New South Wales
- Overview of NSW
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph Offices
- Date stamps
- Forms
- Envelopes
- Instructional annotation
- Collect
- Delayed
- Free
- Immediate Urgent
- Reply paid
- Rates
- Stamps
- 1871 Telegraph stamps
- 1885 proposal
- 1893 proposal
Occasionally cable messages were transcribed onto other forms as a matter of necessity. The main reasons were:
- no forms were in stock;
- the Telegraph Office had not been supplied with Cablegram forms.
Usually the forms used were annotated with the appropriate heading. Some examples follow.
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An example of the Victorian Interim period form VI-DO-3E used for a Cable from London (Via Eastern). 8 October 1918 at Proweyah -anoffice which was unlikely to have had a supply of Cablegram forms. TELEGRAM has simply been crossed out and ms. CABLE added. |