Acton Post Office
Acton Post Office, later to become Canberra opened as an Allowance Office on 1st November 1912 with Mrs Letitia Kaye as Postmistress. However, it is reported that an officer from Queanbeyan attended temporary facilities between June and November 1912. It was determined that the office would be housed in a building on the School Reserve at the junction of the Uriarra and Narrabundah Roads, Acton. Acton was established in anticipation of the movement to that location of several hundred workers involved in the construction of the Duntroon Military College. On 6 February 1913 G.C. Bondfield, Postmaster at Branxton was transferred to Acton. Around this time construction of the new Acton office was almost complete. Bondfield reported taking formal possession of the office on 30 June 1913. With the christening of the federal capital the Canberra (I) office was changed to Ainslie and Acton to Canberra (II). When Parliament moved to Canberra the front portion of No.1 Secretariat in Parkes was made available and the post office was relocated to that location on 21 March 1927.
‘QUEANBEYAN B’ date stamp used at temporary facilities 15th June 1912 to 7th November 1912 Acton Post Office utilized a Type 2A date stamp which was still in use in use at 27th
June 1913.
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| Acton Post Office (National Archives of Australia - NAA) |
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| Early real photograph postcard of Acton (T. CHANNON Federal Studio Queanbeyan) |
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| 1905 postcard from Goulburn to Arthur Brassey at 'Acton '. |
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| Queanbeyan B provisional rubber date stamp on NSW 6d orange perforated OS. Utilised at temporary ACTON facility between 1 June and 8 November 1912, one day after opening of official post office. From 1 June to 1 November 1912 temporary facility was open for 1 day per week each week and serviced by postal officer dispatched from Queanbeyan as also occurred at Duntroon. Bob Tobin reporting the discovery of the provisional rubber date stamps in the Date Stamp (Issue 52 qv) thought there had possibly been use for 1 day only in each case until replaced by steel date stamps which had been ordered. However, August 1912 date as depicted on this example is indicative of either simultaneous use with steel date stamp or delay in supply of Queanbeyan B steel date stamp. Unable to confirm from official post office records and at this time no examples recorded on cover |
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| 24 June 1913 Type 2A ACTON NSW cancelling 1d red. Limited and very late use. |
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