Australia - Can Anyone Identify These Placenames?

Can anyone identify these Australian placenames?

1. (SOMETHING) NEWCASTLE



2. ---RINGON-



3. ---N'S RIVER



4. ----TONIA



Thanks for looking!

3rd I think is Johns River NSW

4th Hughstonia NSW

2nd Gerringong NSW maybe

Aussie Al, thanks for the suggestions. Johns River appears to be correct, although at the time it was spelt with an apostrophe. I was able to verify this from a 1938 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.

Thanks re Gerringong and Hughstonia. By the way, the Hughstonia PO closed in 1952.

There is a sample of the postmark from Hughstonia on the following site:

http://www.prestigephilately.com/ca...ctionnum=122

It's a nice one too, peterethio! A much clearer strike than mine, sad to say.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding the (-----)Newcastle cancel?

There is definitely another word - and a quite long one, I'd say - before the 'Newcastle.' What's more, the obvious possibilities - North, South, East and West - have to be ruled out, because there do not ever appear to have been post offices with any of those names.

Someone must know what this is!

Due to the date, I think it's a military postmark of some type. Can you flip the scan so the stamp is vertical please?

How's this?

Great scan. I've been through my Postmarks of the Australian Forces 1939-1953 by Stobbs, and can't find anything to match. Premier Postal's reference didn't help either.

I'm stumped!

Here's a scan to demonstrate the difference between the regular Newcastle postmark (on the left) and the one I'm asking about.

Likely "Registered Newcastle". See figure 2 here.

I love it when a problem gets solved. Well done!

It's a great suggestion, PostmasterGS, but I'm not sure it's correct. (Brilliant find, by the way!)

The first letter, which you can see the beginning of in the corner, appears to be a 'T' not an 'R.'

I don't think that stroke can be explained away as a smear. What's more, the 'R' in the 'REGISTERED NEWCASTLE' cancel (on the reverse of the cover) has no equivalent stroke.

I am wondering now if it could be 'THE MAIL ROOM.'

I think it has to be 'THE' something.

A few more postmarks I can't identify:

(1) A place that ends with a suffix of some kind, 'G.H.'



(2) The one on the left seems to read SYDNEY 22. The other, presumably, is SYDNEY 19. Can anyone tell me what kind of postmarks these were?

My guess is that the first one is Raleigh, NSW, which fits. Underinking may have caused the "I" to look like a stop.

The Sydney postmarks were numbered from 1 to around 50 IIRC, and were used to identify the postal clerk (hazy memory, so I stand to be corrected)

jubilee, thanks re Raleigh. I'm sure that's right because the GH looks very odd as a separate component.

IIRC?

If I Recall Correctly =IIRC