APPLICATIONS FOR LEASES AND LICENCES (UNDER 1898 ACT)
Applications for leases and licences, known as the Guard Books, issued under the 1898 Land Act. The forms contain details of the lease no on a standard plan and give the land division and place of application. The applicant's name, acreage an...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series comprises record of service registers for the Department of Land and Surveys. The registers can include details such as: date of birth; dates of employment; transfers; leave; promotions; place of employment; salary and remarks. An alph...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series consists of cadastral plans compiled from original surveys. The plans consist of one or more locations within the same Land District. They are drawn on different scales and do not conform to a grid pattern. Each sheet includes a table ...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series of Town Registers appear to be registers of work done by surveyors. The first four volumes are grouped alphabetically and have an index at the front. The next five volumes are grouped by district and contain the following headings - no...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
SURVEYOR'S INSTRUCTION REGISTERS
The Surveyor's Instructions Registers record work done by surveyors and are arranged by name of surveyor. Details include district, location, letter book reference, date surveyed, plan and cost.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
REGISTERS - RURAL LAND GRANTS AND SALES
Although labelled Description Books, these volumes are more like registers. Details include name of grantee, date and file no.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
The Land Purchase Board was established by the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act (No. 34 of 1897 and No. 46 of 1909) section 7 and 6 respectively, to advise generally and value land offered for sale to the Government under the Act. Essentially run b...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
DESCRIPTION BOOKS - RURAL LAND GRANTS AND SALES
Description books for rural land grants and sales arranged by district and then by location no. Details provided include name of grantee, lot no., acreage and description of the boundaries.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Index to correspondence regarding locations in various districts, showing district and location numbers and relevant Field Book numbers where known. Only a few entries are recorded. The volume was then used as a field book register.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
From 1952 until the late 1960s plans in this series were drawn and named by dividing into four the 1 Mile sheets of the Australian map grid.The `named 40 chain plans',should not be confused with those 40 chain plans of the Original State Seri...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Chief Draftsman's plans are a miscellany of plans created by the chief draftsman or at his direction. These are generally one-off tasks - e.g. Meckering Earthquake impact, plans of public buildings, townsites, Aboriginal missions and communi...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Lease description books comprising a separate volume for each type of lease. Details include lessee, no., district, date and a description of the boundaries. They are arranged in chronological order of lease no.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM - UNREGISTERED FILES
This series contains unregistered files from the Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS) which became part of the Department of Land Administration's Integrated Land Information Programme (ILIP).
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Register of Kwinana freehold town lots nos 1-333.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
During the early 1960s, Public PLans for the northern half of the state were drawn on 4 Mile sheets,which conformed to th Australian mapping grid.Before 1961, plans for these areas were were drawn to scales of 300 & 800 chains (see WAS 981).From 1...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series comprises cadastral plans of proclaimed townsites or parts thereof, including suburban lots. The plans are drawn to imperial scales (between 2 to 8 chains to the inch).Since 1970, this series has been gradually superseded by plans draw...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
LARGE SCALE PLANS (METRIC - TOWNSITES)
In 1970 a new referencing system for small scale public plans was introduced in Western Australia.The system is based on the identification of Primary rectangles, each comprising 8x8 1:10,000 sheets. Each primary rectangle is identified by:1. the ...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
MINUTES - NOMENCLATURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE / GEOGRAPHIC NAMES COMMITTEE
Official minutes of the Nomenclature Advisory Committee / Geographic Names Committee.The Nomenclature Advisory Committee held its inaugural meeting on 27/07/1936. The Committee was formed following a deputation of the WA Historical Society to the ...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Folder of documents kept by the Under Secretary for Lands relating to Migration Agreements during the 1920s.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series consists of photographs with accompanying negatives. The photographs document a wide range of activities carried out by the Department, including:Field surveys;Aerial photos;Technical equipment used by the Department (e.g. surveying eq...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
CARDS / VOLUMES - ABORIGINAL WORDS
This series consists of two types of record:Sets of cards compiled by the Department of Lands and Surveys recording Aboriginal words for places, objects, animals, parts of the anatomy, etc. with English interpretations. It is believed the words we...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
Alphabetical register recording townsites for Western Australia, listing the name of each townsite, the date the townsite was declared, reference to corresponding file numbers and any remarks. Many metropolitan suburbs are also included.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This series lists those index sheets to Lands Dept plans (mainly Public & Original Plans) that were transferred on various occasions from Lands & Surveys/DOLA to the State Archives.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This card index is an A - Z of station names. Information includes: Lease number; lessee; address; acreage; correspondence file number [see WAS 211 and/or AN 3]. Detail varies from card to card.
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS
This is an artificial series created by the Department of Land Administration to include records that report on the organisational structure of the Department of Lands and Survey and its successor, the Department of Land Administration, and change...
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS