Picture post cards: Convenience for public [10 December 1904]

[Editor: This article, regarding the 1905 postal regulations for postcards, was published in The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.), 10 December 1904.]

Picture Post Cards.

Convenience for Public.

The Deputy Postmaster-General advises that in anticipation of the promulgation of a new regulation approved of by the Postmaster-General, pictorial postcards may forthwith be divided on the face by a vertical line, the part on the left, which must not exceed that on the right, to be used for correspondence, while that on the right must be reserved exclusively for the address.

This should prove a great convenience to the public, especially in connection with the use of the numerous varieties of postcards sold by stationers, &c., which contain pictures taking up the whole or greater portion of the back of the card.

Source:
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.), 10 December 1904, p. 13

Also published in:
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.), 10 December 1904, p. 13 (Second Edition)
The Brisbane Courier (Brisbane, Qld.), 12 December 1904, p. 4

Editor’s notes:
&c. = an alternative form of “etc.”: an abbreviation of “et cetera” (also spelt “etcetera”), a Latin term (“et” meaning “and”, “cetera” meaning “the rest”) which is translated as “and the rest (of such things)”, used in English to mean “and other similar things”, “other unspecified things of the same class”, “and so forth”