New South Wales - Colonial period: 1858-1900.
Ordinary rate delivery form NC-DO-4.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: No form number.
Has curved NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH above the crest.
Message area: 9 or 10 lines of 5 boxes.
Reverse side: Lines of 5 boxes numbered to 130.
Colours (text & form): Black on grey.
Size of form overall: 230 × 218 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:

In the Legislative Council on 22 June 1876, Mr. Docker said, in answer to a question, that new delivery forms for telegraphic messages would be issued on the 1st July.
The time a message was received for transmission or the time it was issued for delivery would be recorded. No more of the forms now in use were to be printed.

The Sydney and suburban offices and the country offices would be supplied as soon as the forms could be furnished by the Government printer and distributed.

 

 
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NC-DO-4A

Characteristics:

  • printed in black on blue paper;
  • stock number S 83 4 in top right corner;
  • Crest is 12 mm wide;
  • front is printed with boxes numbered to 45 and reverse has boxes to 130 plus regulations below the boxes.
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NC-DO-4B

Characteristics:

  • printed in red on blue paper;
  • stock number S 83 4 in top right corner;
  • Crest is 12 mm wide;
  • front is printed with boxes numbered to 45 and reverse has boxes to 130 plus regulations below the boxes.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-4A None . RR
DO-4B