Postmaster-General of New South Wales

Postmaster-General of New South Wales
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Formation	22 January 1866
First holder	Joseph Docker
Final holder	Paddy Crick
Abolished	28 January 1901
Succession	Postmaster-General (Australia) Postmaster-General's Department

The Postmaster-General of New South Wales was a position in the government of the colony of New South Wales. This portfolio managed the Postal Department of the New South Wales Government and was in charge of all postal and communications services in the colony prior to the Federation of Australia, from 1866 to 1901.^[1] Upon Federation, Section 51(v) of the Constitution of Australia gave this power to the Commonwealth which now had the power to exclusively legislate on "postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services".^[2]

List of Postmasters-General

Postmasters-General 1866–1901
Name	Party affiliation	Period
Joseph Docker	No party	22 January 1866 – 27 September 1868
Atkinson Alfred Patrick Tighe		29 September 1868 – 26 October 1868
Daniel Egan		27 October 1868 – 16 October 1870
Joseph Docker		16 December 1870 – 13 May 1872
George Alfred Lloyd		14 May 1872 – 4 December 1872
Saul Samuel		5 December 1872 – 8 February 1875
John Fitzgerald Burns		9 February 1875 – 21 March 1877
Saul Samuel		22 March 1877 – 16 August 1877
John Davies		17 August 1877 – 17 December 1877
John Fitzgerald Burns		18 December 1877 – 20 December 1878
Saul Samuel		21 December 1878 – 10 August 1880
Francis Bathurst Suttor		11 August 1881 – 13 November 1881
Stephen Campbell Brown		14 November 1881 – 22 August 1882
Alexander Campbell		30 August 1882 – 4 January 1883
Francis Augustus Wright		5 January 1883 – 27 May 1883
William Trickett		28 May 1883 – 1 May 1884
James Norton		2 May 1884 – 6 October 1885
John See		7 October 1885 – 21 December 1885
Daniel O’Connor		22 December 1885 – 25 February 1886
Francis Bathurst Suttor		26 February 1886 – 19 January 1887
Charles James Roberts	Free Trade	20 January 1887 – 16 January 1889
Henry Clarke	Protectionist	17 January 1889 – 7 March 1889
Daniel O’Connor	Free Trade	8 March 1889 – 22 October 1891
John Kidd	Protectionist	27 October 1891 – 2 August 1894
Joseph Cook	Free Trade	3 August 1894 – 27 August 1898
Varney Parkes		27 August 1898 – 13 September 1899
William Patrick Crick	Protectionist	14 September 1899 – 28 February 1901

References

1. "Postmaster-General". NSW State Records. NSW Government. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
2. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 s. 51(v).