Board of Land and Works reserved land on Phillip Island by Orders in Council in December 1955 and June 1956 as sites for a penguin rookery and known as the Penguin Reserve.HistoricalLarge cream cloth sign with black print outlining regulationswildlife - penguins, penguin reserve, phillip island nature park, signs

This letter certifies that substantial and permanent improvements have been made to land in the Parish of Tallangatta Lot 50, which is near Allansford. The lease was to Charles Stonehouse.Part of a collection of letters relating to the Bostock family.Blue lined foolscap size sheet with writing in black ink. Writing is sideways on the backSigned by J M Grant, S Hopkinsallansford, charles stonehouse, james carlisle

From the THE LAND ACT 1884.-REGULATIONS: "Any person duly licensed under section 93 of The Land Act 1884 to cut and take away any live or dead timber on Crown lands, and any person specially licensed in that behalf by the Governor in Council, may at all times enter upon the said land and therefrom cut and take away live or dead timber. "The Richardson family was one of the very early settler families to establish themselves in the Orbost district. Samuel Richardson was builder of the Paddle Steamer Curlip.A white paper licence certificate No. 182 made out to Samuel Richardson & Son for the purpose of a Saw Mill. It was to cost ten pounds per annum. Print is black and details are hand-written.richardson-samuel certificate-lands-sawmill

NSW Western Land Board: list of Western Land Leases, 1909Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co Ltd annotationsland enclosure pastoral industry - settlement sheep stations - history, nsw western land board, land enclosure, pastoral industry - settlement, sheep stations - history

Page 2223 titled Contracts Accepted - (Series 1860). Contracts accepted are for Raising and removing sunken ship Marilla; Removal of Toll-gate from Mount Alexander Road and re-erection of same at Middle Gully; Erection of toll-house on Melbourne/Ballarat Road near Ballan; Erection of toll-house on Bendigo Road at Kangaroo Flat; Castlemaine to Ballarat - Erection of toll-house at Campbell's Creek; Construction of 2870 chains of Lower Western Road, west of Camperdown; Erection of two bridges and other improvements on the Clunes to Amherst Road; Erection of timber bridge, & c., over Two-mile Creek - Beechworth to Bowman Forest; Formation of roadway at head of Buckland Gap - Beechworth to Bowman Forest; Construction of culvert, & c., Rowe's Creek - Beechworth to Bowman Forest; Ararat and South-western sea-board road - erection of bridge over Dennicull Creek and other improvements. Land Sales - 4 Lots - Elsternwick, parish of Prahran, County of Bourke; 2 Lots - Dandenong, County of Bourke; 20 Lots - Lillydale, Parish of Yering, County of Evelyn, 1 suburban Lot - County of Evelyn, Parish of Yering; 1 Allotment - Romsey, County of Bourke, Parish of Lancefield; 5 Lots - County of Mornington, Parish of Langwarrin, and 2 Lots - County of Mornington, Parish of Fingal. Lots to be sold at the Auction Rooms of Mr. William Perry, Great Collins Street, Melbourne. A F A Greaves, President, Office of the Board of Land and Works, Melbourne.bridge, construction, timber bridges, board of works, melbourne - contracts accepted & land sales, 'marilla', f m pingree, jno r bailey, robert heron, john gray, donald ross, hector mclean, c j glynn and co, john nicholls and co, michael cleary, thomas cairncross, brown and gibson, queen victoria, mr william perry, mr de castella, willoughby, barker, a f a greeves, board of land and works melbourne

1958 C.R.B. Plan of Survey of Part of Crown Portion 12 Section 4 Parish of Nillumbik, County of Evelyn Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Shire of Eltham Shows Surveyor field notes, property ownership and building type and construction.a.j. collis, a.s. & c.g.h. fitzpatrick, board of land & works, bridge street, brougham steet, commonwealth bank of australia, country roads board, eltham, eltham rsl sub-branch, f.h. collis, f.m. smith, f.n. & e.j. burgoyne, franklin street, h.c. & r.e. burgoyne, j. jorgenson, j.f. & j.e. morris, j.n. & h.c. burgoyne, j.s. blow, john street, main road, p.e. smith, pitt street, r.j. dripps, s.j. taylor, survey plan, trustees of the eltham methodist church, 1958, eltham-yarra glen road, neil webster collection

1956 C.R.B. Plan of Survey of Part of Crown Portion 13 Section 4 Parish of Nillumbik, County of Evelyn Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Shire of Eltham Shows Surveyor field notes, property ownership and building type and construction.eltham-yarra glen road, country roads board, eltham, main road, survey plan, 1956, a.l. lyon, a.w. brinkkotter, arthur street, c.r. burkett, dudley street, e.n. staff, eltham war memorial trust, henry street, luck street, pryor street, the board of land & works, the equity trustees executors and agency coy ltd, the roman catholic trusts corporation, victorian railways commision, neil webster collection

1957 C.R.B. Plan of Survey of Part of Crown Portion 13 Section 4 and Crown Allotment 1 Section 1 Parish of Nillumbik, County of Evelyn Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Shire of Eltham Shows Surveyor field notes, property ownership and building type and construction.eltham-yarra glen road, country roads board, eltham, main road, survey plan, 1957, a.m. & a.a. iowerson, a.mcg. hepburn, cecil street, coffee lounge, diamond street, e.g. murrell, elsa court, h.b. woodhead, j.c. & s.i. harding, la ronde, luck street, r.m. & v.m. white, r.n. mowatt, the board of land & works, w.g. hains, neil webster collection

Black cover book, rules and regulations. Victorian Railways. Written in pencil inside front two pages, ' Jean Bright' in childlike hand. Victorian Railways, rules, regulations and byelaws of the Board of Land and Works for the guidance of officers and servants and the conduct of traffic on the Victorian Railways, in accordance with the provisions of the Railways Act, 1863'.Fergusson & Moore, Printers, Flinders Lane East, 1864cottage, miners, victorian railways, rules, bye-laws

An extract from the Board of Land and Works building estimates for 1858 shows an allocation of 500 Pounds for the construction of Tide Gauge Houses at various places. A copy of this plan was obtained from the Hydrographic Survey Office in Queenscliff. https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1857-58NoB1.pdfCopy of a plan for a tide gauge house at Queenscliff 1858Clerk of works office Geelong 27 July 1858queenscliff, tide gauge house, plan

The Ballarat School of Mines opened in the former Ballarat Circuit Court House in 1870. The court house was demolished in 1915 to make way for the Ballarat Technical Art School. The Ballarat School of Mines is a predeccessor of Federation University Australia..1) Handwritten agreement on blue paper with green thread. The agreement is between the Board of Land and Works and Redmond Barry and others concerning a seven year lease of the former Ballarat Circuit Court House for use as a mining school (the Ballarat School of Mines). .2) Four lined fooscap pages relating to specifications of several works required to the Old Court House. .3) Rough notes on proposed lease of the Court House.lease, former ballerat circuit court house, redmond barry, legal, crown solicitor, gurner, robert davidson, warrington rogers, john warrington rogers, william warrington rogers, rivett henry bland, p. saunders, james williams, ballarat school of mines, ballarat school of mines establishment

Document: hard cover journal. Buff cover with embossed edges. Spine has red insert with 'Certified Plan Register' printed in gold. 250 pages, with index in front of register. LH page: number, date of receipt, name, parish, tracing book, plan, decision of Board of land and works, gazette page, name of surveyors, date of survey, sent to, date. RH page: précis of minute. Dated 1878 - 1893, includes areas in central and northern Victoria.plan register, lands office, bendigo, plans, surveyed, victoria, northern victoria

(1) Black and white photographed copy of an original coloured plan. Plan of Richmond Park with Horticultural Society Gardens marked in. Includes additional land which became the Field Station. Original plan dated 31 August 1872, note of Crown Grant to the Board of Land & Works and Richmond City Council 1886; showing land, "Permanently Preserved for the Gardens". Stamp, "Department of Lands and Survey Photographed at the Central Plan Office 1/1 Plate 7.12.48" (2) Also 2 photocopies, 1 reduced - possibly used in a publication1 photocopy has "Figure 1. Plan of Burnley Gardens circa 1863 [sic]gardens, richmond, horticultural society of victoria, richmond park, a.l. martin

Letter written on behalf of Tho. MacGibbon, Secretary for Lands, to C. Stratton, Secretary, Argyle Common, Linton. Acknowledging receipt of Argyle Common accounts for 1896, and informing of their passing by the Board of Land and Parks. Also requesting that in future the accounts should be prepared on the prescribed form, a copy of which was enclosed. Found in the home of Miss Margaret Gorman after her death. See form sent with letter - Registration No. 1617Handwritten letter on grey paper headed Department of Lands and Survey, dated 18th May 1897. Addressee C. Stratton Esq.-Secretary-Argyle Common-Linton.argyle common linton, animal grazing, agricultural activity

Premier 23rd January 1893 – 27th September 1894. Born in Alnwick, England, Sir James Patterson (1833-1895) migrated to Victoria in 1852 to try his luck on the goldfields. After little success he turned his hand to farming, and later operated a slaughter yard at Chewton. Patterson served on the Chewton local council, being elected mayor four times before moving with his wife Anna and family to Melbourne in 1870. Patterson established a real estate business, and after two unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament in 1866 and 1868, he won the by election for Castlemaine in the Legislative Assembly in December 1870. He would hold this seat until his death 25 years later. Patterson served in Sir Graham Berry’s brief August to October 1875 government as Commissioner of Public Works and Vice-President of Board and Land Works. He repeated these roles two years later in Berry’s second government and additionally served as Postmaster-General, and in Berry’s third government was Commissioner of Railways and again Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works. In April 1889 after a time in Opposition, Patterson became Commissioner for Trade and Customs in Duncan Gillies’ Government. The following year he returned to the familiar positions of Public Works, Board of Land and Words and Postmaster-General. By 1891 Patterson was leader of the opposition, and when William Shiels’ government succumbed to a motion of no confidence, led by Patterson, he became premier on the 23rd of January 1893. During his premiership, James Patterson was also Chief Secretary and Minister for Railways. His term as premier coincided with a period of severe economic depression, and his enforced economies earned Patterson few public admirers. In May 1893 his government attempted to prevent a run on bank withdrawals and stabilise the sector, by declaring a 5 day 'bank holiday'. Patterson was awarded a knighthood in May 1894, however this did not increase public confidence in his government who were not returned to power in the August 1894 election. Again leader of the opposition, James Patterson died suddenly of influenza on the 30 of October 1895.This portrait was presented to Sir James Patterson by 'grateful citizens of Victoria' in appreciation of his services during the land boom depression. In 1929 the painting was donated to the Victorian Parliamentary Library by H. Lavinia Patterson, the wife of Sir James Patterson's nephew Colonel George Patterson.Oil on canvas, framed. Frame: ornate wood, gesso mouldings, unglazed. Signed on bottom right corner "G. Coutts" Stamped inscription along inner edge of canvas: "WINSOR AND NEWTON". Inscription on canvas, handwritten in ink: "13 1 92" from reverse.patterson, james brown (1833-1895)

The Department of Crown Lands and Survey was originally established in 1857 as part of the Board of Land and Works. In 1964 it ceased to be controlled by the Board. The Department functioned for almost twenty more years before being combined with other Ministries to form the Department of Conservation, Forests and Land. It was responsible for the management of the State's Crown land and pastoral estates. This map was used by Don Mehlert after 1928. The VERMIN AND NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT 1928 was an Act to consolidate the Law relating relating to Vermin and Noxious Weeds. E. J. E. G. Pemberton who published this poster was Superintendent of Field Staff, Dept. of Lands and Survey. This map and posters are significant records of early settlement history in Murrangower, between Cabbage Tree and Orbost,A paper map of Murrangower showing settlement subdivisions. This is glued onto the back of four overlapping cloth poster of "Notices of Vermin Destruction". All print is black."DON MEHLERT" in black pen. Pike's block shaded in blue. School site marked in blue pencil. on poster "MURRANGOWAR" along side.map-murrangower poster-vermin-and-noxious-weeds murrangower-settlement

This photo was inherited with the building when the museum was established. Lind was born in 1878 in East Charlton, Victoria, the son of Oliver Nicholas Lind, a farmer from Denmark, and his Welsh wife Mary Ann Clay. In 1882, drought forced the family to move to East Gippsland where Lind was educated at Lucknow, and then to Bairnsdale in 1884 where he attended Bairnsdale state school. In October 1920, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Gippsland East for the Victorian Farmers' Union. Lind was made Minister of Forests, President of the Board of Land and Works and Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey in Albert Dunstan's cabinet. He was knighted in 1951. In 1926 two national parks east of Orbost were named the Albert and the Lind national parks after him.A framed photo of Sir Albert Eli Lind. It is a black and white head and shoulders photo in a black wooden frame.Sir Albert E. Lind Knighted !951photograph politician lind-albert government

Ledger. Hard cover journal, orange-tan cover with leather spine and corners. Contains unused index in front of book. 740 pages with details of local land board dealings, including 'show cause'. On each page: schedule of applications and other matters considered by local land board at (name of area inserted). Some areas listed: Boort, Bendigo, Sea Lake, Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Kyabram, Castlemaine, Echuca, Daylesford, Manangatang.Lands Officeplace, land board schedules, bendigo, sandhurst, land sales

Australian rules football began being played on a regular basis in Cheltenham in 1890. Teams would not only play locally but travel by train fairly long distances, such as to Ballarat, for the day, play a game, turn around and come home. The Cheltenham home games were played on a paddock on the corner of Park and Charman roads in Cheltenham. In 1907 the Cheltenham progress committee made an application to the board of land works for land in Weatherall Road for recreational service to the public. That application was received and granted, then developed where Cheltenham Recreational Reserve now stands. The ground was opened in 1909 and the first Cheltenham side entered in the newly formed Federal Football League along with seven other foundation members, Mordialloc, Mentone, Moorabbin, Frankston, Glenhuntly, Elsternwick, and Ellindale. The grand final for that year, 1909 was a hard encounter between Cheltenham and Ellindale with Cheltenham coming out victors, thus becoming the inaugural Federal Football League premiers. The Federal Football League (FFL), also known simply as the Federal League, was an Australian rules football competition in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The competition was in existence from 1909 to 1981 and was regarded as one of the strongest metropolitan leagues in Melbourne.Black and white image of the players and officials of the Cheltenham Football Club. Back (left to right) G Puttick, Franklyn (sic), Unkown, Unknown, C Corstorphine, D Arland, Dave Hughes, H Bryant, Centre: T Elliott, S Parsons, F Judd, H Foreman, N Corstorphine, J McCormack, S Chandler, H Orr. Front: H Clayton - no other names recorded. The players are wearing what appears to be a range of club jumpers, with some in street wear. Some players seated in the front row have mud visible on the soles of their shoes, indicating they may have already played a gam. The ball on the ground in front of the group is round.Round red sticker on reverse with handwritten text: X10 Handwritten in blue ink: A11, with a circle around it Handwritten in red ink: 50%sport, football, cheltenham, teams, federal football league

Green cover book with brown leather spine. The book lists the applications for allotments of land for sale. The headings in the book are: number of application, date of registry, date of application, surname, Christian name and address, parish, allotment, section, area, local land board schedule, classification, crown grant, references and remarks. It covers the years 1908 -1974.Spine has a red label with gold letters. On the cover the remnants of a label, under in ink Sec.173, 1011-3420. At top left of the cover Sec.171 SHland sales, govrnment

Green cover book with brown leather spine. The book lists the applications for allotments of land for sale. The headings in the book are: number of application, date of registry, date of application, surname, Christian name and address, parish, allotment, section, area, local land board, Licence dated, licence issued, references and remarks. The book covers the years 1908-1960.On the cover in black ink "Castlemaine" and in red ink "138 front, 130 Rear" On the first page in pen: 138-129 front 130-121 back.land sales, castlemaine

Establishment and Functions Prior to 1860, the Chief Secretary's Department had been responsible for the administration of the gold fields and associated mining activities. In November 1860 a Commissioner of Mines was appointed and a Department was established under his administration. For the period November 1861 to June 1863, the Postmaster General was responsible for the Mining Department. A Minister of Mines was again appointed in 1863. Responsibilities of the Department of Mines were: 1. Regulation of mining and related public works activities through the issue of miners rights, business and residence licences, mining leases, mineral and other prospecting licences 2. Superintendence of the activities of mining surveyors, registrars, wardens and Mining Boards. 3. Investigation of the state's geological structure, mineral wealth and underground water resources 4. Development of the mining industry 5. Supervision of the safe working of mines, machinery and quarries including checking the credential of mine managers, inspectors and operators 6. Regulation of the disposal of sludge and other waste products 7. Administration of the Victorian Mining Accident Relief Fund. Arising from its initial responsibility for the supply of water on the gold fields, the Department became responsible for rural water supply from the mid 1860s. Statutory responsibility for rural water works during this period rested with the Board of Land and Works. In 1865 the Waterworks Act gave the Board power to construct waterworks, purchase land, levy charges and lease or sell works, while the Public Loans Act 1865 empowered it to provide loans to local water trusts for waterworks. The actual administration of these statutory provisions was undertaken by the Victorian Water Supply Department which operated from 1865 to 1889 as a sub-department of the Department of Mines, from 1889 as a department in its own right, and from 1895 to 1909 as a sub-department of the Department of Mines and Water Supply. For a brief period from 1891 to 1893 the Department of Mines was also responsible for forests and, until 1880, for the Schools of Mines subsequently transferred to the Education Department. In 1895 the Department of Mines and the Victorian Water Supply Department were amalgamated to form the Department of Mines and Water Supply. A snapshot into social history around the 1930s when the Department of works and the Mines Departments were still linkedReceipt Book for the Department of Works; Mines. Receipt No 2801 - 3000. 1st receipt Number 2801, "18th July 1936, for Rent of Cottage: 14 days for 2 pounds, 2 shillings. The inscription on the back is signed by J F Condau in 13-3-33Printed on spine "GENERAL RECEIPTS / 15 / 2801 / TO 3000" Printed on each receipt 'DEPARTMENT OF / PUBLIC WORKS. / MINES." Fill in using ink pen "(DATE) 18th July 1936 / (TO) - - - shields' / BEING) Rent of / Cottage: 14 days / (TO) 17th July / @ (symbol for pound) 1-1. p. week / . (symbol for pound) 2:2:-"Inside cover there is some red pencil writing, words and figures unreadable. Handwritten on back cover "Numbers checked / and found corredt / J S Coudou (?) / 13-3-33" One some receipts "Wharfage / S.S. Koonara"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, department of works: mines, receipt book, rent 1936, imperial currency, living costs 1936, department of works, department of mines, j f condou, 1933, 13-3-33