Naracoopa

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Location: 39° 55' 0" South, 144° 6' 0" East


see Google Map for an enlargement


  • Opened: 07-JAN-1918 as a Telephone Office
  • Upgraded to a Receiving house from 01-DEC-1920 and then to an Agency from 01-JUL-1923
  • Post Office was destroyed by fire on 30-JAN-1939 (see contemporary newspaper report below)
  • Closed: 19-SEP-1962


Datestamps[edit]

Type 2d

  • Earliest recorded date: 19-APR-1921 · Latest recorded date: 31-DEC-1938
  • Rated RR

This datestamp was ordered on 19-DEC-1920 and was in use until destroyed when the office burnt down in 1939

Relief Stamp 2 was used as a temporary replacement: ERD: 03-FEB-1939 LRD: 05-APR-1939

Report an earlier or later use of the Type 2d datestamp here


Type 5

  • Earliest recorded date: 04-MAY-1939 · Latest recorded date: 06-APR-1959
  • Rated RR

Report an earlier or later use of the Type 5 datestamp here


To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page


Other Cancellations and Postal Items[edit]

  • The origin of the 7 bar 'killer' cancellation on the 1925 cover illustrated above is unknown. It was possibly used to cancel mail at either

of the Telephone Offices at Fraser Road West or Pegarah Road as mail from both localities was transmitted via Naracoopa at the time.

    • Red R.6 registration label


Other Information[edit]

  • Report regarding the destruction of the post office by fire published in The Mercury on Tuesday 31-JAN-1939

(it is interesting that a post office at Grassy is mentioned in the report as there was no office in operation there between 1935 and 1943)

    • Map of the Bass Strait telephone cable which was laid from Apollo Bay in Victoria to Circular Head via Naracoopa


Links & References[edit]

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page


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