page_title: Tarro, New South Wales
section_title: Post office
hierarchical_section_title: Tarro, New South Wales / History / Post office
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of Tarro Post Office until 1993
context_page_description: Tarro is a north-western suburb of the Newcastle City Council local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It, and parts of nearby Beresfield, was originally known as Upper Hexham, "lower" Hexham being an older settlement located about 5 kilometres to the east on the Hunter River. The name "Tarro" reportedly means "stone" in an Aboriginal language.
  At the 2006 census, Tarro had a population of 1,558, almost all of which is concentrated in the south-western corner of the suburb.
context_section_description: Tarro's first post office was named Upper Hexham and was located at the railway station. Around 1918 the post office moved to Woodberry Road, and later to 13 Maitland Road (now Anderson Drive). The post office housed the manual telephone switchboard until automatic switching was introduced in 1957. The post office closed on 30 July 1993 and Tarro is now served by Beresfield Post Office.
caption: Old Tarro Post office
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