Index plans on public plan base showing details of Original Plan numbers and Diagrams.The index sheets may also show correspondence file numbers as amended by Land Parcels Branch of DOLA.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
The file contains - results of a questionnaire re land holdings at Herdsmans Lake in 1935, a list of cottages there and a detailed description of the soil type in the lake area.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series consists chiefly of plans recording exploration routes in Western Australia throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. The plans are both original maps of explorations commissioned by the Survey Office (and its successor agencies) as well...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
LEASES AND LICENCES TRANSFERRED
This series records the transfer of leases for pastoral and tillage lands. There is an alphabetical index of lessee's names at the front of each volume, and details for each entry include No., acres, class, from whom, to whom and date of tran...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Estray - Surveyor General's "private file" containing newspaper clippings relating to the discovery of oil at Exmouth Gulf.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Various registers and volumes of newspaper cuttings relating to immigrants. The 9 volumes in Acc. 568 were transferred by the Commonwealth Department of Immigration in 1953.The volumes were received from the Commonwealth Department of Immigration ...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
CALCULATION BOOKS - 129TH MERIDIAN
The calculation books in this record series are a discreet group that document surveys of the 129th Meridian from various stations.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Details include names of mortgagor and mortgageee and date of discharge of mortgage.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
The calculations recorded in these volumes were made by Lands Department surveyors while checking the work referred to Head Office by field surveyors. The small consignment of books sent to Archives was selected by DOLA Crown Surveys staff. These ...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
From 1958, Public Plans of densely settled coastal areas were drawn on 2 & 4 chain scale sheets.The sheet lines of these plans were based on a division of the Australian map grid's 1 Mile sheet. In the title of individual 2 & 4 chain plans th...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
NOMINAL ROLLS - ASSISTED PASSAGE SCHEME
Nominal rolls of migrants travelling to Western Australia under the Assisted Passage Scheme.The rolls are arranged in chronological order and grouped by the name of the vessel, with migrants travelling under the scheme listed.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
STEREOPLOTTING SECTION - INDEXES
Index books held by Stereoplotting Section, Topographic Services. Used as aide-memoires in relating aerial photography runs to creation of plans and maps from photographs.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
WORK RECORDS - SURVEY EXAMINER BRIAN WRAY
This series contains an example of the manual records of one officer's (Brian Wray, Survey Examiner) work jobs from his appointment to the Department of Lands and Survey until the introduction of computer control of jobs. Archived as a sampl...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
AGRICULTURAL RAILWAYS ADVISORY BOARD - MINUTES
The Agricultural Railways Advisory Board was established in 1911 as an inter-departmental committee under the chair of the Surveyor-General to advise the Government through the Premier on the establishment and extension of agricultural railways. I...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
AGRICULTURAL RAILWAYS ADVISORY BOARD - FILES
The Agricultural Railways Advisory Board was established in 1911 as an inter-departmental committee, under the chair of the Surveyor-General, to advise the Government, through the Premier, on the establishment and extension of agricultural railway...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
CANCELLED PUBLIC PLANS - STANDARD SERIES
This series represents the first attempt to cover the colony within one integrated cadastral mapping system.The series consists of the following plan sequences:K (Kimberley) 80 chain, 1884-1885 (consignment 4897);K (Kimberley) 300 chain, 1886-1902...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
CANCELLED PUBLIC PLANS - ORIGINAL STATE SERIES - 80 CHAIN PLANS
This series consists of 80 Chain Cancelled Public Plans of selected areas of Western Australia (mainly the South West region). The scale is 80 chains to one inch and the plans are based on the Bonne Modified Conical Projection which provided for s...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
WAR SERVICE LAND SETTLEMENT - CREDIT AUTHORITY FILES
The War Service Land Settlent Board operated under the aegis of the Department of Lands and Survey. This series contains unregistered files of correspondence between the War Service Land Settlement Board, the Commonwealth of Australia and the Rura...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
WAR SERVICE LAND SETTLEMENT - FARM LEDGER CARDS
The War Service Land Settlement Scheme operated under the aegis of the Department of Lands and Survey. This series contains a sample from a larger holding now destroyed. The sample is based on approximately six cards in each geographical region wh...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
The townsite registers recorded surveying of lots resumed from reserves or created from vacant Crown land.The lots are arranged under town name with further sub-divisions of any lot being recorded. Details include the original plan/diagram numbers...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
CARD INDEX - AGRICULTURAL AREAS
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
RESERVES ADVISORY COUNCIL - MINUTES AND RESOLUTIONS
The Reserves Advisory Council was set up by the Minister for Lands as an interdepartmental committee to:- find ways and means to protect natural scenery; discuss issues re National Parks and related reserves; discuss relevant legislation in Austra...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Extracts from minutes of the Board of Pastoral Appraisers (now the Pastoral Board) of appeals against rent (chiefly) and other administrative decisions of the Lands and Surveys Department. Each volume is indexed alphabetically by station or lessee...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
These registers refer to fieldbooks (Record Series No. 32) compiled by the surveyors who undertook surveys for the Department of Lands and Surveys (and predecessor departments). The information given in the registers is the name of the surveyor, f...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS