Physical description

Set of 23 Notice Paper or Meeting Agendas - sent to Trust Members and others for The Melbourne Tramways Trust for period Feb. 1885 to December 1885. Printed by Ferguson and Moore for the Trust. Signed by the Secretary. Covers construction arrangements, appointments, financial, loans, debentures, legislation, arrangements with the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company and other organisations including banks.



Notes are the principal items shown in the Orders of the Day. Printed by Fergusson and Moore



1885-1886

1 27/2/1885 Election of Chairman and committee members.

2 6/3/1885 Finance report – payments to employees, auditor appointment and payments to suppliers.

3 20/3/1885 Finance re interest rates and commissions, calling tenders for wood blocks, screens and items for Fitzroy and Simpson’s Road lines.

4 2/4/1885 Payment to employees, custody of agreement, report on tenders and payments to suppliers.

5 17/4/1885 Commission charged by banks in London, payments of accounts, expenses reporting to Councils.

6 1/5/1885 Finance report, MTOCo seeking payment for Richmond Line, funds transferred to the Trust, works committee report – 2 million wood blocks from David Munro & Co.

7 15/5/1885 Payment of Accounts including Richmond line to MTCo, accept tender for Spencer St to Victoria Parade and Simpson’s Rd branch.

8 39/5/1885 Wages, Finance Committee, list of inspectors employed, tenders for Fitzroy line, horizontal engines, wood blocks, alterations to gas lines and employment of an architectural draftsman for engine house design.

9 12/6/1885 Finance, debentures, payments on Richmond line, considered order of construction of lines and start on plans for Sydney Road line.

10 26/6/1885 Finance, payments, issues with the City of Melbourne who holds the 4th Schedule agreement, payments to suppliers and issues with contractor supplying the screenings.

11 10/7/1885 Finance, relocation of the Burke and Wills monument, payments to suppliers.

12 24/7/1885 Wages, salaries, construction of No. 2 section of Fitzroy line.

13 7/8/1885 Purchase of land for engine houses, payments on patents, works, tenders for rope winding gear.

14 21/8/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tenders for rails and crossings.

15 4/9/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tender for Fitzroy engine house, call further tenders.

16 18/9/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tender for rope driving gear let.

17 2/10/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tender for crossing and wire rope.

18 16/10/1885 Wages, supplier payments.

19 30/10/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tender for bank loans to be called.

20 13/11/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tenders for various equipment.

21 27/11/1885 Wages, supplier payments, tender for driving gear accept, and equipment.

22 11/12/1885 Wages, supplier payments.

23 22/12/1885 Special meeting to pass salaries and contractors accounts. List of accounts passed attached.



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