Army Post Office Postmark Kit with dating-stamp used by the Australian Corps of Signals - Gawler Heritage Gallery, Civic Centre. South Australia
Army Post Office Postmark Kit containing date-stamp, ink bottle and stamping pad.
Manufactured by H C Horton, general engraver and precision engineer, Malvern, Victoria.
The Australian Corps of Signals operated post and telegraph facilities where civilian services were not available. They used Army Signals and Army Telegraphs date-stamps.
Here - an illustration of a letter posted at the 9th/23rd Light Horse Regiment training camp on the Gawler Racecourse and passed to the Gawler post office for onward transmission.
DOWN THE LINE – Communication in Gawler
An exhibition at the Heritage Gallery, Gawler Civic Centre.
Exploring the importance of long-distance communication, postal service, telegraph and telephone which were vital in keeping Gawler connected to the world.
Manual Telephone Exchange
This is a subscriber telephone exchange switchboard CB type which was in service from 1950s – 1980.
Donated to the Gawler Branch of National Trust of South Australia from the Mallala Museum.
In 1884 Dr F W H Popham began lobbying to have Gawler and Adelaide connected by telephone. The Postmaster-General, Sir Charles Todd, asked for some financial guarantees from the town.
An income of £125 was guaranteed to the PMG Department: cables erected and a switchboard installed in a corner of the post office.
With three subscribers and a public telephone connected, the Gawler Telephone Exchange opened 19 February 1889.
The first subscribers were the flour millers Hilfers & Co, Harris’s general store and James Martin’s foundry. They each paid £25 per annum which included the cost of all calls.
The public could use the telephone in the post office for 1/- per 5 minutes.
Army Post Office Postmark Kit with dating-stamp used by the Australian Corps of Signals - Gawler Heritage Gallery, Civic Centre. South Australia
Army Post Office Postmark Kit containing date-stamp, ink bottle and stamping pad.
Manufactured by H C Horton, general engraver and precision engineer, Malvern, Victoria.
The Australian Corps of Signals operated post and telegraph facilities where civilian services were not available. They used Army Signals and Army Telegraphs date-stamps.
Here - an illustration of a letter posted at the 9th/23rd Light Horse Regiment training camp on the Gawler Racecourse and passed to the Gawler post office for onward transmission.
DOWN THE LINE – Communication in Gawler
An exhibition at the Heritage Gallery, Gawler Civic Centre.
Exploring the importance of long-distance communication, postal service, telegraph and telephone which were vital in keeping Gawler connected to the world.
Manual Telephone Exchange
This is a subscriber telephone exchange switchboard CB type which was in service from 1950s – 1980.
Donated to the Gawler Branch of National Trust of South Australia from the Mallala Museum.
In 1884 Dr F W H Popham began lobbying to have Gawler and Adelaide connected by telephone. The Postmaster-General, Sir Charles Todd, asked for some financial guarantees from the town.
An income of £125 was guaranteed to the PMG Department: cables erected and a switchboard installed in a corner of the post office.
With three subscribers and a public telephone connected, the Gawler Telephone Exchange opened 19 February 1889.
The first subscribers were the flour millers Hilfers & Co, Harris’s general store and James Martin’s foundry. They each paid £25 per annum which included the cost of all calls.
The public could use the telephone in the post office for 1/- per 5 minutes.