I don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t really sound true. It sounds like on of those “just so” stories. Like when people say the definition of a “city” is a place that has a cathedral.
The GPO was the location for Main Roads Departments eg when it says 25 km to Ingham, they mean to the main Post Office. Well it was back when I worked for Qld Main Roads in the 1980s as a Surveyor. I forget the designated names for post offices, I think GPO was the main one in each town and PO was other branches ?
Of course when it says 25km to X and X has no PO I can’t remember what they used ?
That might be of zero consequence to the ABS or this map.
Isn’t the city centre usually defined as the post office?
I don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t really sound true. It sounds like on of those “just so” stories. Like when people say the definition of a “city” is a place that has a cathedral.
The GPO was the location for Main Roads Departments eg when it says 25 km to Ingham, they mean to the main Post Office. Well it was back when I worked for Qld Main Roads in the 1980s as a Surveyor. I forget the designated names for post offices, I think GPO was the main one in each town and PO was other branches ?
Of course when it says 25km to X and X has no PO I can’t remember what they used ?
That might be of zero consequence to the ABS or this map.