NRS 12419 Public Works Special bundles, 1846-1963

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A

Armidale Land and Survey Office, 1883, 1885 [2/895 part]
Australian Loan Council — Reports and related papers, 1951/52-1957/58 [7/63.2]

B

Balmain — Court House, Post and Telegraph Office, 1885 [2/895 part]
Bateman's Bay — Clyde River Bar, 1864-65 [2/894 part]
Bathurst — Erosion of river banks, 1872 [2/893 part]
Berrima and Parramatta Gaols — Classification of prisoners — Additions — 1865 [2/886 part]
Blackett, E.T. — Resignation as land valuer, 1859 [2/895 part]
Blacktown — State Tileworks see State Tileworks
Black Wattle Swamp — Reclamation, 1869-70, 1878 [2/894 part]
Bondi — Claim by T.R. Scott re land, 1888 [2/894 part]
Bondi Beach improvements — Bondi sea-wall, 1908-16 [7/5882 part]
Botany Bay — Tributary development, 1911 [19/13435 part]
Broken Hill water supply, 1939-43 [7/60.1, 7/59 part]
Burragorang Road works, 1867-88 [2/887 part]
Burrowa — Court House, 1883 [2/896B part]

C

Casino — Post and Telegraph Office and Police Barracks, 1878-79 [2/896B part]
Cataract and Nepean Rivers — Disposal of waste water for irrigation purposes, 1891-1906 [7/5881 part]
Chalet — Charlotte Pass, 1960 [7/60.2 part]
Clarence River harbour works, 1884 [2/889 part]
Colonial Architect's Branch — Expenditure, 1870 [2/893 part]
Competitions — Architectural competitions (public buildings] and reorganisation of Government Architect's Office, 1890-91 [2/889 part]
Competitions — Historic buildings competition, 1961 [7/60.2 part]
Competitions — Certificates of merit awarded to public buildings in the Sydney Morning Herald competition for the preservation and restoration of historical buildings, 1963 [3/3183]
Condobolin — Police Station and Court Room, 1878-80 [2/896A part]
Cook's River — Reclamation — Memorandum on rights of adjoining proprietors, 1888 [2/894 part]
Cooma — Post and Telegraph Offices, 1875-77 [2/894 part]
Cooma — Police buildings, 1876-78 [2/896A part]
Coonamble water supply and artesian water in general — Report on possibilities of finding, 1892 [4/6263 part]
Cooranbong — Post and Telegraph Office, 1880 [2/896A part]
Corowa — Police buildings, 1890 [2/895 part]
Crookwell — Post and Telegraph Office, 1886-89 [2/894 part]
Cudal — Court House and Lock-up, 1882-85 [2/896A part]
Cundletown — Post and Telegraph Office, 1890 [2/895 part]

D

Darling Harbour — Stone dyke, 1865 [2/896A part]
Darling Harbour — Wharves — Use of turpentine timber, 1870 [2/893 part]
Darlinghurst — Land near Gaol for use as quarry, 1855-59 [2/895 part]
Darlinghurst — Court House see Sydney — Darlinghurst
Darlinghurst — Female School of Industry see Female School of Industry
Deepwater — Police buildings, 1888-90 [2/895 part]
Defence works — Report of Royal Commission — Minister of Public Works recommendations on — Cabinet business paper, 1891 [4/6263 part]
Dubbo — Public works, 1865-66 [2/895 part]
Dubbo — Public buildings — and other public works in Castlereagh District — Miscellaneous papers, 1880-90 [2/886 part]

E

Echuca Bridge — Report of Royal Commission (Victoria], 1878 [2/896A part]
Eden Light House, 1860-62, 1872 [2/894 part]
Eight Hour System, 1878-82, 1893 [2/888 part]
Electoral system — Abuses re Labour Bureau, 1900 [2/896B part]
Electric telegraph — Report of Select Committee, 1856 [7/5880 part]
Electric telegraph line — Penrith to Bathurst — Construction, 1859 [2/889 part]
Electric telegraph to Europe — (Printed) correspondence, 1859 [7/5880 part]
Electric telegraph to India, 1859-69 [4/6262 part]
Electric telegraph — Wellington—Dubbo, 1862-64 [4/6262 part]
Electric telegraph — Report by Superintendent, 1863-64 [2/886 part]

F

Federal Capital Royal Commission — Proposed sites — Depositions, summaries of evidence, correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1899-1904 [2/882-885.6]
Female School of Industry — Proposed move from Darlinghurst, 1901 [4/6263 part]
Fish River water supply, 1942 [7/59 part]
Fort Phillip — Signal Station — Additions, 1857-58 [2/895 part]

G

Gaols — Return of, 1866 [2/894 part]
Garden Island — Transfer to Royal Navy, 1856-59 [2/895 part]
Garden Island Naval Station, 1889-96 [7/368-70]
Garden Island, Spectacle Island and Woolloomooloo naval works — Abstract of estimates, 1884 [4/6263 part]
Geological and mineralogical specimens — Collection, 1874 [2/896A part]
Gladstone — Dam, 1855-57, 1859 [2/895 part]
Glebe — Court House, 1888-89 [2/894 part]
Glebe — Post Office, 1889 [2/895 part]
Glebe Island — Abattoir, 1850-57 [2/893 part]
Glebe Island — Boiling down works — Petitions against re-opening, 1888 [2/894 part]
Glen Innes Police buildings, 1875-77 [2/894 part]
Goat Island — New Powder Magazine 1857, 1859 [2/895 part]
Goat Island — Powder Magazine, 1864-66 [2/896B part]
Goat Island and Spectacle Island, 1862-78 [7/366], 1879-90 [7/367]
Goulburn — Attempt to derail train, 1883 [2/896B part]
Grafton-Glen Innes Railway, 1884 [2/889 part]
Great Northern Railway, 1875-81 [2/889 part]
Great Northern Road — Morpeth-East Maitland — Repair, 1864 [2/894 part]
Greta — Post and Telegraph Office and Railway, 1875-77, 1891 [2/890 part]
Gundagai—Tumut Road — Progress reports, 1870 [2/893 part]
Gunnedah — Use of stone from, 1901 [2/895 part]

H

Hamilton — Post and Telegraph Office, 1888 [2/895 part]
Harbour works between the Tweed River and Port Kembla — Notes compiled from Department of Works Annual Reports tracing the development of, 1846-1947 [7/7582]
Hartley—Lithgow Road — via Brown's Gap — Correspondence, 1877 [2/894 part]
Haslem's Creek — Cemetery, 1867 [2/895 part]
Hexham — Petitions for railway siding, 1886 [2/895 part]
Hillston — Police buildings, 1883-85 [2/896B part]
Hunter River — Protection of banks — Petition, 1879 [2/896B part]

I

Industrial Farm — Proposal of Charles de la Motte, 1901 [2/896B part]
 (Public Works)
Internal communications of New South Wales — Appointment and report of Commissioner, 1858-59 [2/895 part]

J

Jerry's Plains — Post and Telegraph Office, 1879-80 [2/896A part]
Jugiong — Removal of toll bar, 1866-67 [2/895 part]
Jugiong — Court and Watch House, 1890-92 [2/896B part]

K

Kenmore Asylum, 1889-93 [2/890 part]
Kirribilli Point and other sites — Resumption of land for defence, 1856, 1871, 1900-01 [2/890 part]

L

Labour Commissioners — Duties and functions, 1900 [2/896B part]
Lake Macquarie — Improvement of entrance, 1861-64 [2/890 part]
Lake Macquarie entrance — Report by John Coode, 1887 [4/7578 part [formerly ML A2567]]
Legislation — "Betterment Principle" — Papers relating to the District Government Bill of 1892 and related topics — 1892-95 [2/887 part]
Legislation — District Government Bills, 1889-92 [2/890 part]
Legislation — Early Closing Bill — Deputation to Minister for Labour and Industry, 1899 [2/894 part]
Legislation — State Labor Bill, 1901 [2/895 part]
Legislation — King's Cross Tunnel Act (no.30, 1941], 1939-54 [7/5884 part]
Light Houses, 1857-58 [2/895 part]
Lismore — Police quarters, 1879-80 [2/896A part]
Lismore water supply reticulation area, 1942 [7/59 part]
Liverpool — Benevolent Asylum — Additions, 1876 [2/896B part]
NSW Loan Programme — Works in Progress papers, 1946/47-1949/50 [7/4639-4643.1]
Louth — Post and Telegraph Office, 1879 [2/896B part]

M

Main roads — Administration, 1858 [2/895 part]
Main roads — Proposed arrangements for services, 1859 [2/895 part]
Main roads — Reports on construction and maintenance, 1859 [2/891 part]
Manly Beach — Lock-up, 1865-66 [2/896A part]
Maitland Bridge — Claim for compensation by G. Vindin, 1869-72 [2/894 part]
Maroubra Speedway — Levelling of track, 1939-41 [7/5883 part]
Maryborough — Harbour and other works, 1857-59 [4/6263 part]
Michelago — Court and Watch-house, 1888-92 [2/891 part]
Military works — Transfer of charge of, 1890 [2/895 part]
Miscellaneous — Cataract Dam (minute), 1902; "Socialism and the Workers" (press cutting], 1905; Grose Valley electric lighting scheme, 1900; Government Printing Office, smoke abatement, 1902; Public Works Account, receipted invoices, 1901 [2/887 part]
Miscellaneous, 1859-1901 [2/896B part]
Moree Municipal Council — Financing of water supply, 1940 [7/59 part]
Morpeth — Public buildings, 1860-61, 1867 [2/891 part]
Moruya — Police buildings, 1879 [2/896B part]
Mosman, The Spit Middle Harbour — Reclamation, 1907-16 [7/5882 part]
Mt. Keira — Tramway Bill, 1858-59 [2/895 part]
Mt. Victoria — Toll bar site, 1873-74 [2/896A part]
Mudgee — Post and Telegraph Office, 1861-64 [2/894 part]
Murrumbidgee River — Comin's Crossing Bridge, 1880 [2/896A part]

N

Nanimi — Bridge over Lachlan, 1860-63, 1866 [2/895 part]
Narrabri — Railway Station site — Petition re, 1880 [2/896A part]
Narrabri — Court House, 1884, 1886-87 [2/894 part]
Narrabri — Jurisdiction of Council over bridges, 1888 [2/895 part]
Narrandera — Lock-up, 1879-80 [2/896A part]
National Reserve Works papers, 1949-58 [7/61.1]
National Works — Control of main and developmental roads, 1930 [19/13435 part]
Newcastle — Wharf at Stockton, 1856-57, 1859, 1861, 1867 [2/895 part]
Newcastle — Wharves, 1856-64 [2/896B part] (Extracted plan of the extension of the Hunter River railway into Newcastle, 1857 at City AO Map No. 6236)
Newcastle — Signal House — Additions, 1858-59 [2/895 part]
Newcastle — Wallsend Coal Company — Dispute over steam cranes, 1860-63 [2/892 part]
Newcastle — Silting of harbour, 1863-70 [2/893 part]
Newcastle — Fence at Sand-Hills, 1868 [2/893 part]
Newcastle — Custom House, 1874 [2/896B part]
Newcastle — Flagstaff Hill Roadway, 1882-83 [2/896A part]
Newcastle — Military Barracks, 1884-85 [2/896A part]
Newcastle — Shepherd's Hill Battery, 1890 [2/895 part]
Norman's Creek — Bridge, 1856-58 [2/895 part]
Northern Road — Progress reports, 1869-70 [2/893 part]
Norton Griffiths and Company loan contract and balance sheets (mainly relating to construction of New South Wales Railways), 1914-17 [7/4135 part]

O

Oberon Dam, Fish River spillway study, Feb 1954–Apr 1955 [7/407.2]
Oberon—Jenolan Caves Road, 1887 [2/895 part]
Official records — Sanction to sue for publications, 1901 [2/895 part]
Omnibus nuisance — Complaints, 1859 [2/889 part]

P

Parramatta and Berrima Gaols — Classification of prisoners — Additions, 1865 [2/886 part]
Parramatta — Lunatic Asylum — Repairs, 1866 [2/896A part]
Parramatta — Roman Catholic Orphan School — Additions, 1880 [2/896A part]
Parramatta — Old Protestant Orphan School — Alterations and additions, 1888-89 [2/894 part]
Parramatta — Macquarie Street Asylum and George Street Home — Land resumption claims, 1925-52 [7/4134 part]
Paterson — Post and Telegraph Office — Claim for land resumed, 1883 [2/896B part]
Pental Island — Leases — Possession disputed between New South Wales and Victoria, 1866-67 [2/892 part]
Petersham Railway Station, 1880-84 [2/892 part]
Pitt Town water supply, 1947 [7/59 part]
Plumbers — Public Works — Fares and allowances, 1900 [2/896B part]
Port Jackson — Defences — Suggested schemes, 1864-65 [4/6263 part]
Port Jackson — Fort — Additions, 1875-76 [2/894 part]
Port Jackson — Foreshores — Record of deputation re, 1900 [2/896B part]
"Port Kembla — The History and Development of", notes and correspondence by the Hon. E.S. Spooner, Minister for Works and Local Government, 1938 [7/5883 part]
Port Macquarie — Old Lake Road — Correspondence (printed], 1876 [2/894 part]
Post-war public works, co-ordination of — Reports to the National Works Council, 1943-50 [7/4643.2-4644]
Potts Point extension of Victoria Street — Woolloomooloo Bay land resumption, 1897-1900 [7/5881 part]
Premises and land rented by Government in Sydney, 1883-84 [2/893 part]
Prospect Dam — Report on construction, 1886 [2/894 part]
Prospect to Menangle Upper Canal — Proposed supply of irrigation water from Cataract Dam, 1908 [7/5881 part]
Public parks — Transfer of control to Mines Department, 1885 [2/896B part]
Public Service — Uniformity of hours of duty, holidays etc. in the Public Service, 1900 [2/896B part]
Public Works Enquiry Commission, 1886-87 [2/892 part]
Pyrmont Bridge Company — Roads and bridges, 1862, 1873, 1883 [2/896B part]
Pyrmont Bridge Company — Memorandum by E.O. Moriarty concerning compensation for resumption, 1882 [4/6263 part]

R

Railways — Proposal to lease — Tenders, 1862-63, 1866 [2/891 part]
Railways — Transfer of Ministerial control to Treasurer, 1889 [2/894 part]
Redfern and Necropolis — Funeral and Receiving Station, 1867-69 [2/896A part]
Relief employment, 1939 [19/13436.2]
Richmond River — Report by John Coode, 1888 [4/7578 part [formerly ML A2567]]
Roads — Commissioner's report on state of, 1865 [2/891 part]
Roads and bridges — Construction and maintenance, 1859 [2/888 part-889 part]
Roads and bridges — Inspecting Engineer's reports on country roads and bridges, 1904-05 [2/885.7]
Road Superintendents — Appointment, 1859 [2/895 part]
Road Superintendents — Offices, 1877-80 [2/896B part]
Road Surveyors — Advances, 1859 [2/895 part]
Road building — Contracts for, 1908 [19/13435 part]
Road works — Municipalities, 1939 [19/13436.1]
Robertson—Upper Kangaroo Valley — Proposed road, 1934-46 [7/4134 part]

S

Seal Rocks Light House, 1863, 1873-76 [2/891 part]
Separation of Public Works from Lands Department, 1859 [5/1318]
Shire Councils — Stone for road works and river bank protection, 1911 [19/13435 part]
Shire Councils — Rationed and relief road works, 1939 [19/13437.2]
Singleton — Court House, 1865-68 [2/894 part], 1866-68 [2/896B part]
Singleton — Cemetery, 1889 [2/895 part]
South Coast towns water supply amplification — Progress reports, 1930-31 [7/5883 part]
South Coast water supply (Port Kembla, Wollongong etc.], 1920-26 [7/5882 part]
South Sea Islanders — (Printed) papers concerning importation into Queensland, 1868-69 [7/5880 part]
South Head — Fort — Additions, 1875-76 [2/894 part]
South Sydney — Morgue, 1881 [2/896A part]
South Sydney — Morgue — Caretaker's cottage, 1882 [2/896A part]
Spectacle Island — Minute re use by Royal Navy, 1883 [4/6263 part]
State Dockyard, Director of: Report on the New South Wales Government Engineering and Shipbuilding Undertaking, 1 March 1942-31 March 1943 [3/2997]
State Tileworks, Blacktown, 1948-50 [7/61.2]
State Tileworks, tenders and technical information received, 1948-53 [7/62]
Steam postal communications via Panama, 1859 [2/895 part]
Stockton — Watch house, 1878 [2/896A part]
Submarine cable, 1858 [2/895 part]
Sunny Corner — Court House, 1884-88 [2/892 part]
Sutherland v The Queen (Money due for work on Government Post Office], 1865-66 [2/891 part]
Sutton Forest — Acquisition of Old Parsonage for extension to Hillview (Vice Regal Residence), 1882-85 [2/891 part]
Sydenham to Botany Railway — Resumption of land, Botany Water Reserve, 1916-26 [7/5882 part]
Sydney — Admiralty House Grounds, Kirribilli Point and adjoining Battery Reserve, 1924 [7/5882 part]
Sydney — Botanic Gardens and Fort Macquarie — Sea wall, 1861-64 [2/888 part] (see also Sydney — Farm Cove)
Sydney — Centennial Park — Inauguration of the new Service Reservoir (no.2) for the maintenance of high level supply of water to the City and contiguous suburbs: Opening Ceremony 26 August 1925 [7/5882 part]
Sydney — Centennial Park, supply of water to Lakes, 1914-22 [7/5882 part]
Sydney — Commodore's Residence, Macquarie Street, 1868-91 [2/887 part]
Sydney — Darling Harbour see Darling Harbour
Sydney — Darlinghurst — Land near Gaol for use as quarry, 1855-59 [2/895 part]
Sydney — Darlinghurst Court House, Lands Office, Public Works Office, Central Police Court, International Exhibition Building, 1881-92 [2/893 part]
Sydney — Devonshire Street Cemetery and Benevolent Society appropriation for railways, 1878, 1881-84 [2/896B part]
Sydney — Devonshire Street — Burial Ground, 1890 [2/895 part]
Sydney Domain — Erection of dwarf wall and railing between Riley and Palmer Streets, 1866 [2/891 part]
Sydney — Elizabeth Street, extension to Bourke Street, Waterloo, 1877 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Farm Cove — Stone dyke, 1863-67 [2/895 part] (see also Sydney — Botanic Gardens)
Sydney — Free Public Library see Sydney — Public Library
Sydney — Garden Palace, 1880-81 [2/896B part]
Sydney — George Street North — Lock-up — Resumption of land, 1879-83 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Harbour — see Port Jackson
Sydney Harbour Bridge — Calculation and design estimates, reports, photographs and papers, 1911-33 [4/7582-88 (formerly ML D172-78)]
Sydney — Hyde Park — Dwarf wall and iron railing — Tenders, 1876-77 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Hyde Park — Emigration Barracks — Occupation by District Court and Harbours and Rivers Branch, 1861 [2/896A part]
Sydney — Hyde Park Barracks — Preservation as an historical museum, 1937-47 [7/5884 part]
Sydney — Macquarie Street, 1879 [2/896B part]
Sydney — Maritime Services Board Head Office, Circular Quay — Land resumption, 1936-48 [7/4134 part]
Sydney — Martin Place — Land resumption for General Post Office approaches, 1892-1928 [7/4136]
Sydney — Martin Place — Sale of land, 1892 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Head Office — Land resumption, 1907-14 [7/4135 part]
Sydney — Money Order Office (temporary] — Tenders, 1865-66 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Moore Park Olympic Athletic Ground, 1936-46 [7/5883 part]
Sydney — Moore Street extension, 1883-84 [2/892 part]
Sydney — Morgue see South Sydney — Morgue
Sydney — Museum — Additions, 1862-66 [2/896B part]
Sydney — Observatory — Additions, 1877-80 [2/896A part]
Sydney — Parliament House — Ventilation, 1859 [2/895 part]
Sydney — Parliament House — Telegraph Office, 1892 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Post Office, Sydney — Sanction of expenditure, 1869 [2/893 part]
Sydney — Post Office carvings — Demands for removal, 1882-91 [2/891 part]
Sydney — Post Office extension — Claim for compensation, 1883-84 [2/892 part]
Sydney — Post Office — Martin Place decorations — Tenders, 1891 [2/891 part]
Sydney — (Free] Public Library, 1857-69 [9/2660 (formerly ML A1634)]
Sydney — Public Library — Resumption of land in Castlereagh, Elizabeth and Market Streets, 1881-83 [2/890 part]
Sydney — Public Library — Compensation for resumption of land — Elizabeth, Market and Castlereagh Streets, 1881-83 [2/896B part]
Sydney — Public Library — Macquarie Street — Resumption of land, 1884-85 [2/890 part]
Sydney — Public Library — Macquarie Street — Demolition and rebuilding, 1886-87 [2/890 part]
Sydney—Parramatta Railway — Fraud, 1857-59 [2/895 part]
Sydney sewerage works — Tenders, contracts, etc. for construction of stoneware pipes, ventilating shafts and other works, Boroughs of Waterloo and Redfern, 1889-90 [7/5880 part]
Sydney — Sewerage, low level — Provisions to Woolloomooloo, Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, Blackwattle Bay, Annandale and Balmain, 1896-1900 [7/5881 part]
Sydney — Street paving — City of Sydney, 1884 [2/894 part]
Sydney — University — Permission to Gas Company to lay main, 1859 [2/889 part]
Sydney — Water supply to City of Sydney and suburbs, 1878 [2/896A part]
Sydney water supply — Brick aqueduct — Tenders, 1883 [2/894 part]
Sydney — Water mains — Paddington, Randwick, Waverley, Woollahra, St. Peters, Newtown, Marrickville, Waterloo — Bonds, contracts and specifications for supply of materials and for opening and closing trenches, 1888 [7/5880 part]
Sydney water supply — Proposed new dam on Cordeaux River, 1909-12 [7/5881 part]

T

Tanks and wells — Conditions of lease, 1883 [2/892 part]
Taralga — Police buildings, 1884-85 [2/896B part]
Tarban Creek — Lunatic Asylum — Erection of baths, 1866 [2/895 part]
Teachers, Council of Education — Employment of teachers in other branches of the Public Service, 1877 [2/894 part]
Tenterfield — New bridge — Claim for injury to land, 1865 [2/896A part]
Testing Office — Miscellaneous papers, 1904, 1909, 1911 [2/886 part]
Trial Bay Prison — Wooden buildings, 1880 [2/896A part]
Transport — Local Government Department file, 1928, 1932 [19/13437.1]

Twofold Bay — Beacon — Memorandum by Engineer in Chief, Harbours and Rivers, 1872 [2/893 part]
Ulladulla — Wharf, 1858-63 [2/896A part]
The Unemployed, 1890-92 [2/892 part]

W

Wagga Wagga — Public works, 1877-78 [2/896A part]
Wagga Wagga — Gaol, 1890 [2/895 part]
Walka Reservoir, 1883 [2/896B part]
Water supply distribution — Monthly progress reports, 1930-32 [7/5883 part]
Wellington—Quirindi to Forbes Railway — Letter from Mayor of Wellington, 1883 [4/6262 part]
West Maitland — Powder Magazine — Petition of merchants for, 1865 [2/894 part]
West Maitland — Damage caused by embankment, 1867 [2/895 part]
Wilkinson's combination railway truck for livestock — Select Committee (evidence and report] and letter from W.B. Wilkinson to Colonial Secretary, 1887-89 [4/6263 part]
Windsor — Bridge, 1864-66 [2/896B part]
Windsor—Richmond Railway — Sanction of expenditure, 1869 [2/893 part]
Wiseman's Ferry — Wharf and shed, 1886-87 [2/894 part]
Wollongong — Reappointment of Electric Telegraph Inspector, 1866 [2/894 part]
Wollongong—Kiama Railway extension — Petitions, etc. 1882-84 [2/891 part]
Wollongong — Battery, 1889 [2/894 part]
Wollongong sewerage, 1923-25 [7/5882 part]
Wolloomooloo Bay — Sewers, 1862-66 [2/894 part]
Wolloomooloo Bay — Reclamation, 1864-66 [2/892 part]

Y

Young — Public buildings, 1861-63, 1882-84 [4/6262 part]