Cotter Junction Post Office
Previously Yarralumla (I) and prior to
that Bulga Creek Post Office, Cotter Junction ( junction of Bulga Creek and
Yarralumla Roads) opened as a receiving office on 30 December 1907.
Located approximately 18 kms to the west of Canberra
at Greenhills Station (western end of Bulga Creek) where the Cotter River
meets the Murrumbidgee River the office was designated a post office on 1
July 1908 with A J Moore
as postmaster. Money order facilities were established on 1
February 1913 and on 23 March 1914, savings bank facilities were
introduced. Both these facilities were subsequently withdrawn on 31
May 1917 and the office was again designated a receiving office on 1
June 1917, operated by Emily Moore. The office closed on 31 May
1923.
A Type 2(vi) date stamp was used by
the office and is recorded in use 1913. A rare postmark from a short lived post office.
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