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Post and telegraph office, Kāwhia

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Post and telegraph office, Kāwhia

The post and telegraph office in Kāwhia opened in 1886. In 1900 the office may not have been a telegraph service, but it is likely that it included the local telephone exchange. Telegrams sent to an area without a telegraphist would be telephoned instead.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, William Archer Price Collection (PAColl-3057)

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A. C. Wilson, Telecommunications – Telephones, 1877–1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22002/post-and-telegraph-office-kawhia (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by A. C. Wilson, published 13 April 2010, updated 1 April 2022.