Post Office
Location #107 - the Weatherboard Post Office
Group Number 2

Group Members

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No Last Name First Names Maiden Name Relationship Occupation Born Died School Year

Notes

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Note Date Short Description Note Text
1643 1901 General Notes

The Post Office was transferred from a room in the Bannockburn Hotel to the ex Jaxon hut. The first Post Mistress to work in this building was Miss Laura Parsons.

1644 1902 General Notes

The New Zealand Gazette of 1902 shows that on 1 Sep 1902, Miss Margaret Anderson was the post Mistress and Telephonist for Bannockburn.

1645 1905 General Notes

Bannockburn received daily mail from Cromwell.

1646 1908 General Notes

The Post Office was upgraded to a money order office.

1647 1910 General Notes

On 14 Jan 1910 a telephone bureau was opened in the Post Office. The telephone had been in Bannockburn since 1883, installed in the Bannockburn Hotel.

1648 1911 General Notes

Location #107 was shifted back to the rear of the section where it was used as a laundry and coal house for the new stone Post Office.


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