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Title: Trouble at the post office in Ballarat
Description: The Geelong Advertiser reported that while the government had rigidly imposed licenses and thus collected a large revenue, nothing had yet been done to establish a postal service to Ballarat.
Date: 25 November 1851
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. Details.
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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