The Post & Telegraph Office opened on 19 October 1885. Mrs. Machel - formerly of the Normanville Office - was in charge. The Minister of Education told a deputation, on 11 July 1884, that money had been voted for a Post & Telegraph Office and that construction would start when a site had been decided upon. Work began at the end of March 1885 - the site being opposite the Aldinga Hotel. It was expected that the completed building would be "an ornament to the township". On its completion, the Weekly Chronicle of 3 October 1885 said "After being nearly six months in course of erection, the new post and telegraph office is finished. It contains five rooms, besides the office and, having been built with very pretty stone, presents a neat appearance, and is quite an ornament to the township". |
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Glenelg.
The Telegraph Office opened on 3 September 1859. A large new office was constructed in 1880 which included additions to the residence. The cost was £828. In 1902 a cable station was opened at/near Glenelg as the shore station for the Cape-Cottesloe-Glenelg submarine cable. |
Glenelg Post Office and Town Hall in early 1900s. |
Early postal date stamps began to be used on telegrams. Those for Glenelg were framed. Diameter: 22 mm. The example shown to the right is the earliest use of a Number of examples used on a telegram in the Census: 1. |
4 November 1876. Used on SC-DO-5A. |
A steel circular TELEGRAPH date stamp (RC1 - T) was used at Glenelg.
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30 June 1981. |
The Post Office at Meadows was opened on 18 July 1850. It then closed on 29 February 1852 but was relisted as a Post Office on 1 January 1855. Telephone facilities were established in May 1900. Presumably the Telegraph facilities began operation soon after. |
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Meadows P&TO about 1902. |