Petition
To the Hon. J Cook Esq. MLA
Post Master General
Sydney
Sir,
We the undersigned residents of Genowlan, Airly, humbly petition you to grant us in connection with our local [post office, a money order office, or else present our postmaster to dispose of postal notes as we are put to great inconvenience in being compelled to go to Capertee to conduct our business.
As the majority are miners you can well understand that in order to obtain a p.o.o. They must either lose a day’s work or else impose on the generosity of a friend.
Trusting you will grant us this small favour in one form or other but the former preferenced.
We beg to subscribe ourselves on behalf of the residents.
| Geo. A Saunders | A C Murphy | |
| A F Hamilton | ||
| A Roach | ||
| A B Johnston | ||
| M Farrell | ||
| W Marshall | ||
| H Wilson | ||
| King Freestone | ||
| J Blackley sen | ||
| C Williams | ||
| R Hartmann | ||
| D Blackley | ||
| J Rour | ||
| J Larkin | ||
| D Donurghy | ||
| W G Donaldson | W Fitzpatrick | |
| John Nainmu | W Forbes | |
| James Brown | W R T Stapley | |
| George Dawson | W Corney | |
| Joseph Rowbotham | E Kristensen | |
| James Horne | ||
| W Porter | M Bannister | |
| Thomas Porter | A B Pettigrew | |
| Robert Porter | Joseph Wright | |
| John Porter | ||
| Hubert McMullen | M Davis | |
| Samuel Herring | F Willnypohy(?) | |
| A White | Ian Flynn | |
| James Lord | Alex Horne | |
| Thoms Shipley | Robert Horne | |
| David Sinclair | Edward Penrose | |
| Charles Kelly | G E A Shine(?) | |
| William Blackley | A Wilson | |
| Hugh Gibson | A Wilson | |
| Bernard McGettigan | H Annersley | |
| F Lamb | W Halls | |
| R V Shervey | A SHipley | |
| J Bettles | E Austin | |
| E Austin | Y Kelly | |
| J Blackley | A Sherland | |
| J Martin | A E Smith | |
| T Martin | T W Crooks | |
| W Martin | James Potter | |
| E Martin | Arthur Rowe | |
| Archibald Stapley | John Whitley | |
| William Stapley | William Cowie | |
| A Parker | W Halls | |
| William Dobbie | A Simpson | |
| James Bamber | A Simpson | |
| W McWilson | E Howard | |
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‘Airly Post Office 1897-1921’, 1921 1897. NAA_ItemNumber433059. National Archives of Australia. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=433059. Copy held.