Item 9264

Item 9264 is a black and white photographs contained in a brown 267mm x 190mm “POST-MASTER GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT” envelope, with “O.H.M.S.” shown in the top left corner.

 The envelope has no address, but clearly marked:-

“PHOTO 226/32 (CHAPTER 5)

LINE PARTY SHIFTING CAMP, IN 1905,

FROM JUNCTION CREEK TO MOUNT SURPRISE.

99/32 + 226/33  ONE M.M.”

The 216mm x 165mm photograph contained within the envelope is marked 226/33, so 1 photo is missing.

The attached note on the back says:-

“Junction Creek to near Mt. Surprise

Telegraph gang skirting* camp from Junction Creek Telegraph Office 1905.”

*“Skirting” = V.T. “To be on the border (one dictionary meaning),

Maybe “skirting” should read “shifting”

ALSO (Junction Creek – Formerly Rosella Plains – was the telegraph repeating centre for the circuits to the Cape, Gulf, Cooktown, & Cairns until on 4-9-1910 it was closed down & Mt Surprise, on the RLX line STH took its place – Mt Surprise was some 9 MILES from Junction Creek)

Lyndley Northcott                            November 2021.