The Post & Telegraph Offices on the WA-SA Intercolonial line are listed in the table below:
Balladonia | Bremer Bay | Esperance Bay | Eucla | |
Eyre | Israelite Bay | Ravensthorpe |
A Telegraph Office was opened in April 1897. This Office was upgraded to a Post & Telegraph Office in 1900. In December 1897, Executive Council noted that the tender for the construction of the Balladonia Post and Telegraph Office had been let to Mr. W. Harrison for the price of £2,939 9s. |
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It is reported that two formats of a rubber oval POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE date stamp were issued to the office .
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The Telegraph Office was opened 8 August 1876. It had been hoped to open the station in April - it was to be the second station to be opened along the line. The township was formally gazetted as Esperance in December 1893. In 1913, a Wireless Station was established at Esperance. |
The Sydney Morning Herald of 3 December 1895 carried the following article showing the development of Esperance:
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Personel. In 1894, the staff at the Geraldton Post and Telegraph Office comprised:
To these it was proposed to add 2 assistants and 1 messenger to increase the staff from 4 to 7. 1884: Alfred N. Piesse was appointed as a Telegraphist having served at Northam until 1883. |
The Telegraph Office in Eucla was opened on 8 December 1877. It was upgraded to a Post & Telegraph Office in 1895. A personal account by Mr. F. G. Simmons was published in the Adelaide Mail of 4 August 1945. |
See separate page. |
1885: Alfred N. Piesse was appointed as a Telegraphist having served at Northam until 1883 and in 1884 at Esperance. |
A Telegraph Office was opened on 17 July 1877. It was upgraded to a Post & Telegraph Office in 1895. The joint office was closed in 1927. |
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Israelite Bay.
The Telegraph Office was opened 5 December 1876. On 27 September 1895 in the Legislative Assembly, the Director of Public Works (Hon. H. W. Venn) referring to item No. 174 (Israelite Bay Telegraph Station, £2,500), said "the proper name for the position of this station would be Point Malcolm and he moved that the words 'Point Malcolm' be inserted in lieu of the words 'Israelite Bay' ". |
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Personnel. 1885: Alfred N. Piesse was appointed as a Telegraphist having served at Northam until 1883 and from 1884 at Esperance and Eucla. October 1893: Mr. W. Craig was appointed as Assistant at Israelite Bay. |
The Post & Telegraph Office was opened on 29 January 1901. |
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A rubber oval POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE date stamp
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Abacus December 2019 Lot 2278. |