The Telegraph Office appears to have been opened at the Railway Station. |
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A Format 3 - BO3-ETO date stamp was issued to the Office.
It was used on 15 May 1935 for one strike but there is no record of other dates. Size: 24 × 37 mm (e = 0.76). Rated: RRR. |
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Dirranbandi is south of St George and almost on the NSW Border. The Telegraph Office opened in XXX but closed on 30 June 1887. It re-opened on 5 October 1888. |
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Kilcoy is north-west of Caboolture and inland from Woodford. A tender for the construction of a new Post and Telegraph Office was let in March 1913 to E.Tofield for £678. In June 1909, with the advent of telephone services, it was planned to supercede the exsisting contract office at Kilcoy by an official Post and Telegraph Office as soon as funds were available. |
![]() Kilcoy Post & Telegraph Office about 1914. |
The Telegraph Office opened on 21 December 1891. Tenders were called for a new Post & Telegraph Office and Quarters in September 1892. |
Mount Morgan.
The Telegraph Office |
![]() Mount Morgan Post & Telegraph Office in 1911. The Telegraph Office is advertised in the left window. |
Mungindi (see NSW listing). | |
Nerang is situated at the head of the Nerang Creek (aka Barrow River) about 9 miles from the Commera and about 20 miles from the border. In 1876, a large building was constructed for the Telegraph Office which had the same design s that for Beenleigh.
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The Telegraph Office opened on . Roma was an officially designated Repeating Station. In 1880, 11,138 messages were sent including 1,498 OHMS messages. The staff of the Telegraph section consisted of one Electric Telegraph Station Master, 2 operators, 1 line repairer, 1 clerical assistant and one messenger. |
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![]() Roma P&T taken about 1875. Note telegraph poles. Source: Australian National Archives J2879 QTH631. |
![]() Roma P&T about 1920 after modernisation. Source: Australian National Archives J2879 QTH328. |
Southport.
The Post & Telegraph Office opened on 15 October 1879. The first office was in a small house near where the Pacific Hotel now stands on the Esplanade. Mr. W.E. Hanlon was the first postmaster and only employee. At that time, Southport mails were received from Nerang by horse. Before the opening, the mails were distributed from the home of Mr. R. T. Johnston which was then known as Balclutha and is now part of the Star of the Sea Convent. It was the first house erected in Southport. In April 1883, tenders were called for a new Post & Telegraph Office in Southport. On 12 February 1909, the Brisbane Courier announced that: "The Minister for Public Works has accepted the tender of A. Keddie, at £1203, for the erection of a Post and Telegraph office, quarters and fencing at Southport. The new office will be on a good site at the corner of Scarborough and Nerang Streets. The present office is altogether out of date and inconvenient". |
![]() Southport Post & Telegraph Office 1904. |
![]() Southport Post & Telegraph Office 1923. |
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Southport became the landing place for the Pacific Cable in 1902 although another building was constructed to handle the cable traffic closer to the cable landing spot. | ![]() Southport postal date stamp. 17 December 1925. Diameter: 30 mm. QUEENSLAND at the base |
The Telegraph Office opened on 2 April 1872. It was an officially designated repairing station. In 1874, a question in the Legislative Assembly pointed out the inadequacy of the £450 then budgeted for a new P&T building. In January 1878, the new building was completed - at a cost of £700. In 1880, 2,456 messages were sent including 250 OHMS messages. The staff of the Telegraph section consisted of one Electric Telegraph Station Master and one line repairer. |
Stockyard Creek is south east of Toowoomba between Helidon and Warwick. |
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A steel oval Electric Telegraph Office was issued to Gatton.
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Yuleba was established in 1878 and was connected to the railway in 1879. As a railhead for the region to the west, the town was an important centre until the railway was extended again to Roma in 1910. Due to an error in assembling a sign for the railway station - and therefore for the telegraph - the station and the town were originally known as Yeulba. In 1938, the name was changed to the original intended name of Yuleba meaning "place of the waterlillies". On 16 August 1924, the last Cobb and Co stage coach ran between Yuleba and Surat. |
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There is no record of a telegraph date stamp being issued to Yuleba. The postal date stamp shown here YEULBA is rare. |
![]() 30 April (?) 1920. |