The Wool Cheque:

THE WOOL CHEQUE told by Rod Teal This came from a confession by a colleague who trained as a Postal Clerk in the early 1950’s. The job of a Postal Clerk was complex. Besides the usual things you might expect to happen in a post office, in those days, money orders were used where today […]

An Old Timer Remembers

OLD-TIMER’S LETTER  –   Employee in First Post Office in Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie Miner 17 May 1950, page 2 Mr. Lionel  J. Dudley, an old-timer, sent an interesting account of some of his experiences in the early days of the goldfields to Mr. J. D. Teahan, Mayor of Boulder. Once an employee in the first post […]