ARCHITECTURAL PLANS

• AU WA S5037
• Series
• 1979-01-01 - 2018-12-31

Architectual plans of the buildings of the Animal Resources Centre (Authority).

ANIMAL RESOURCES CENTRE

OPERATIONAL FILES

• AU WA S5036
• Series
• 1981-09-25

Operational files of the Animal Resources Authority / Centre, mainly documenting imports of ARC owned and customer strains.

ANIMAL RESOURCES CENTRE

FILES - UNREGISTERED

• AU WA S5035
• Series
• 1897-01-01 - 1901-12-31

A collection of unregistered files and miscellaneous papers largely about Local Boards of Health and building approvals with other subjects included.Previously listed in AN120/4.

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH

FILES - GENERAL

• AU WA S5034
• Series
• 1883-10-01 - 1906-10-01

This series constitutes the main file series created by the first Medical Department of Western Australia.(Files in this Record Series include items that were previously listed at the State Records Office at reference: AN 120; Accession 1003).

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT [1]

INSURANCE PREMIUM REGISTERS

• AU WA S5033
• Series
• 1926-10-01 - ?

Insurance premium register showing the amounts for which crops were insured in various agricultural districts. Gives names of farmers.

INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE BOARD

OPERATIONAL FILES

• AU WA S5032
• Series

CORPORATE FILES

• AU WA S5031
• Series
• 2012-01-01 - 2022-12-31

Corporate files of the Animal Resources Centre, including Ministerial correspondence and documentation for Legal Agreements/Contracts .

ANIMAL RESOURCES CENTRE

PERSONAL FILES

• AU WA S5030
• Series
• 1989-01-01 - 2013-12-31

Personal files of Chief Executive Officers of the Animal Resources Authority / Centre.

ANIMAL RESOURCES CENTRE

BOARD MINUTES

• AU WA S5029
• Series
• 1982-02-15 - 2021-11-01

Minutes of the Board of the Animal Resources Authority / Centre. The papers include documents submitted to the Board which comprise reports, financial statements, draft policies, KPIs and other related documentation.

ANIMAL RESOURCES CENTRE

PLANS - LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK

• AU WA S5028
• Series
• 1879-01-01 - ?

Plans of railway locomotives, coaches, wagons, and other rolling stock produced by and for the Western Australian Government Railways and Westrail. Some railway structures, Perth tramway stock, and items for other railway operations are included.

AU WA A581 - WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (1914-07-01 - 1922-07-01)

FILES - STATE HOTELS (ROTTNEST ISLAND)

• AU WA S3646
• Series
• 1903-01-01 - 1960-12-31

This series of records pertains solely to the State Hotels Department operational management of Rottnest Island.

STATE HOTELS DEPARTMENT

ROYAL VISITS - PHOTOGRAPHS

• AU WA S5027
• Series
• 1954-03-01 - 1994-01-08

Photograph prints of Royal visits to Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN

ROYAL VISITS - OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PROGRAMMES

• AU WA S5026
• Series
• 1953-11-04 - 1994-03-08

Official correspondence, copies of programmes and related material in relation to Royal visits to Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN

AGRICULTURAL RAILWAYS ADVISORY BOARD - MINUTES

• AU WA S1442
• Series
• 1911-01-01 - 1947-12-31

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

SURVEYORS FIELD BOOKS

• AU WA S5022
• Series
• 1910-01-01 - ?

Surveyor's field books of the Main Roads Department.

MAIN ROADS BOARD

REGISTERS AND INDEXES (FILES)

• AU WA S5025
• Series
• 1896-01-01 - 1919-01-01

Registers and indexes to files created by the Wood and Forest Department

WOOD AND FORESTS DEPARTMENT

REGISTERS (PERMITS AND LICENCES)

• AU WA S94
• Series
• 1905-01-01 - 1985-01-01

This series contains registers to sawmilling permits, cancelled sawmilling and tramway permits, exemptions, timber tramway permits, sandalwood licenses, forest produce, contracts, and a register of plants giving measurement of height at yearly int...

WOOD AND FORESTS DEPARTMENT

MAPS AND PLANS

• AU WA S5024
• Series
• 1850-01-01 - 1887-04-30

Maps and plans created by the Convict Department of convict infrastructure in Western Australia.

CORRESPONDENCE - SUBJECT SERIES

• AU WA S5023
• Series
• 1878-07-01 - 1883-12-31

In July 1878, the Colonial Secretary introduced a new system for managing the correspondence of his office by grouping letters into broad subjects and allocating each subject a unique number. The system proved difficult to use and was abandoned in...

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE

VISITOR'S BOOKS

• AU WA S4761
• Series
• 1909-06-30 - 1997-12-22

Visitor's Books for the Children's Hospital / Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.The books record official visits of dignitaries and special parties to the hospital, not general patient visits.There are gaps in entries for the perio...

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

CANCELLED PUBLIC PLANS - ORIGINAL STATE SERIES - 800 CHAIN PLANS

• AU WA S4267
• Series
• 1902-05-30 - 1949-12-31

This series consists of 800 Chain Cancelled Public Plans of Western Australia. The scale is 800 chains to one inch and the plans are based on the Bonne Modified Conical Projection.Before 1907, there were no cadastral plans of most of the areas cov...

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS

CANCELLED PUBLIC PLANS - STANDARD SERIES

• AU WA S979
• Series
• 1878-01-01 - 1907-01-01

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

BUILDING APPLICATIONS (HOUSE PLANS)

• AU WA S4519
• Series
• 1917-08-29 -

This series consists of building applications - including architectural plans - of houses built in the Perth Road Board (now City of Stirling) between 1917 and 1947.House plans for this area between 1947 and the mid-1970s no longer exist. The City...

PERTH ROAD BOARD

FILES - GENERAL

• AU WA S316
• Series
• 1983-01-01 - 1984-01-01

Diverse items to do with the Aboriginal Land Inquiry. Includes correspondence, statements, exhibits, supplementary submissions, Aboriginal land claims and petitions, mining agreements, and case histories.

ABORIGINAL LAND INQUIRY

FILES - GENERAL

• AU WA S312
• Series
• 1982-01-01 - 1984-01-01

This series contains diverse items to do with the Aboriginal Land Inquiry including the Discussion Paper - Final Draft and material on the Harding River Dam.The majority of the records of the Aboriginal Land Inquiry are separated into identified s...

ABORIGINAL LAND INQUIRY

Untitled

• AU WA S5021
• Series

GNOWANGERUP ROAD BOARD

REGISTER - ENROLLED PENSIONER GUARD LANDS

• AU WA S1308
• Series
• 1850-01-01 - 1889-12-31

Consignment 4892 consists of a volume used by the Survey Office to record pensioner holdings (location, name of holder, dates of assignation and issue of title, title deed number) and as an aide memoir. Arranged by location. See also Cons 5000, no...

SURVEY OFFICE

REGISTER OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED

• AU WA S5020
• Series
• 1870-01-01 - 1902-12-31

Register of Correspondence Received by the Colonial Treasurer (for the period 1870-1878) and Requisitions for Stationary and Office Equipment (1882-1902).

COLONIAL TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT

TOWNSITE REGISTERS

• AU WA S2263
• Series
• 1837-01-01 - 1970-12-31

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

REGISTER - TOWNSITES

• AU WA S5019
• Series
• 1899-01-01 - 1980-01-01

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

CARDS / VOLUMES - ABORIGINAL WORDS

• AU WA S5017
• Series
• 1923-01-01 - 1950-01-01

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

REGISTER - FUTURE PLACE NAMES

• AU WA S5018
• Series
• 1949-05-26

This register was prepared by the Department of Lands and Surveys on 26 May 1949 to assist the Nomenclature Advisory Committee with future place naming.The register comprises extensive lists of potential place names (e.g. for the naming of towns o...

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS

MINUTES - NOMENCLATURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE / GEOGRAPHIC NAMES COMMITTEE

• AU WA S5016
• Series
• 1936-07-27

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

DUTY BOOK

• AU WA S3160
• Series
• 1909-05-11 -

Duty Book for the Collie Police Station recording a daily log of officers who were on duty and what duties they were assigned. No prisoner or occurrence information is recorded in these volumes for the period 1909-1919.Extracts from the Police Gaz...

COLLIE POLICE STATION

OCCURRENCE BOOK - SUDDEN DEATHS

• AU WA S2273
• Series
• 1967-10-24 - 1971-05-11

Occurrence book maintained by the police station at Onslow reporting on sudden deaths

ONSLOW POLICE STATION

WOMEN'S REGISTER

• AU WA S2284
• Series
• 1991-01-01 - 1994-12-31

Register of women maintained by the Office of Women's Interests.The Register contains applications from female members of the public indicating availability for appointment to government boards and committees.

OFFICE OF WOMEN'S INTERESTS

PLANS - CONTRACT DRAWINGS

• AU WA S4581
• Series
• 1890-10-01 -

Western Australian government railway contract drawings for railway construction or deviations. Construction drawings can include buildings and other structures as well as the railway line.

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS [1]

CORRESPONDENCE FILES - NATIVE AFFAIRS

• AU WA S3841
• Series
• 1947-04-10 - 1949-10-14

This series consists of files from the office of the Hon. Sir Robert Ross McDonald MLA in his capacity as Minister for Native Affairs in the 1940s.The State Records Office has received three files covering the Hon. Minister's term of office a...

HON. SIR ROBERT ROSS MCDONALD, KC, LLB., MLA

1891 CENSUS RETURNS [YORK CENSUS RETURNS]

• AU WA S2097
• Series
• 1891-04-05 - 1891-04-05

On 26 February 1891, an "An Act for the taking the Census of Western Australia in the year 1891, and thereafter" was assented to. A census was conducted on 5 April 1891. The only returns that appear to have survived for the 1891 census are the fra...

YORK CLERK OF COURTS

UNREGISTERED CORRESPONDENCE

• AU WA S2381
• Series
• 1860-01-01 -

This series consists of loose correspondence addressed, or passed on to, the Superintendent of Police. The correspondence does not appear to be officially registered by the Police Force.(Correspondence in this Record Series was previously listed a...

WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT

SCHOOL/INSPECTION REPORTS

• AU WA S2577
• Series
• 1965-02 - 2000-12

Inspection reports of Cannington Senior High School made by the District Superintendent, providing a listing of the teachers at the school and general comments on the standards of the school. School reports on the standard of the school made by th...

CANNINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MONTHLY HOSPITAL RETURNS - BOARD OF MANAGEMENT / HOUSE COMMITTEE

• AU WA S4760
• Series
• 1941-08-26 -

Monthly returns submitted to the Board of Management (completed by the Medical Superintendent) and the House Committee (completed by the Head Matron). The returns provide a detailed summary of hospital (medical) activity for the month, including s...

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

CIRCULAR ORDERS

• AU WA S3640
• Series
• 1853-03-05 -

Unbound letterbooks containing handwritten Circular Orders issued by the Superintendent of Police.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT

LETTER BOOKS

• AU WA S4973
• Series
• 1899-06-28 -

Volumes of outwards correspondence.

GREENBUSHES LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH

OPINION BOOKS

• AU WA S5015
• Series

Books containing written opinions of the Attorney General on Supreme Court cases and other legal matters.

DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

LETTER BOOKS

• AU WA S5014
• Series
• 1891-01-01 - 1909-01-01

Letterbooks containing outwards letters of the Attorney General

DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

REGISTERS - CUE LICENSING COURT

• AU WA S1870
• Series
• 1911-02-21 - 1970-06-30

Register of applications for temporary, gallon, publican's, wayside and lodging house licences. Deatils include date, particulars of application, name and whether granted or not.

LICENSING COURT - CUE

FILES - TRANSFER OF LAND ACT

• AU WA S940
• Series
• 1877-01-01 -

The Transfer of Land Act, 1874, introduced the Torrens system of land registration. This simplified the title to land, guaranteed it and facilitated dealings with it.Land granted prior to 1875 could be registered under this Act. If a question aros...

SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

CORRESPONDENCE

• AU WA S5013
• Series
• 1840-01-01 -

Correspondence and official documents from the Perth Police Station

PERTH POLICE STATION

RECORDS - ROTHSAY POLICE STATION

• AU WA S5012
• Series
• 1896-08-01 - 1901-05-25

ROTHSAY POLICE STATION