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Feilding Post and Telegraph Office

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Feilding Post and Telegraph Office

The telegraph office was often located in the same building as the post office, underlining the need for a common time. The building often had a public clock as well – as at the Post and Telegraph Office in Feilding.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, F. G. Radcliffe Collection (PAColl-4950)

Reference: 1/2-006377; G

by Frederick George Radcliffe

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Jock Phillips, Timekeeping – New Zealand mean time, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6694/feilding-post-and-telegraph-office (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.