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rockylizard


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Gday...

1901  -     The Postmaster-General's Department in Australia is put into effect. 

1942  -     Japanese forces sink the HMAS Perth, resulting in the loss of over 350 men.

1975  -     Colour television begins broadcasting in Australia. 

1978  -     Actor Charlie Chaplin's grave is ransacked, the coffin removed and held for ransom.

Cheers - John

[edit: 60 lashes over the yardarm for missing that ]



-- Edited by rockylizard on Saturday 1st of March 2014 01:03:02 PM

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Ah, the old PMG. I remember the concrete man-hole covers for the phone lines. And the halfpenny, penny, threepenny and sixpenny stamp dispensers at the local PO. My pocketmoney was 4 bob a week back then.

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That should of course be HMAS Perth

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I was a "TIT" , technician in training with the PMG in my younger days.

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"AH" the good old P.M.G. I spent 8 years with that Mob, 68 - 75,
laying Communication cables in the North West, from Hedland down to Newman.

That's where I learnt to breath through the small corner of one side of the mouth " Bxxxxy Flies "

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Gday...

I woz in PMG as a JPO (Junior Postal Officer - Telegram boy) from 1962 to 1963 ... Telegraphist 1963 to 1966 . Resigned.

Returned as a Telegraphist 1968 and then became a Third Division Clerk (I think the technical term was A Shiny Ar5ed Clerk) in 1970 until 1988 ... when they made me an offer too good to refuse and I began my first semi-retirement, bought a van and a Cruiser and headed into the bush for a few years.

Cheers - John



-- Edited by rockylizard on Saturday 1st of March 2014 01:12:24 PM

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