Historical information

These documents discuss the relocation of the School of Survey to firstly Canberra and then to Bendigo. It also discusses the possibility of extensive renovations at Fortuna and the construction of additional buildings for accommodation and messing facilities. It was envisaged that 15 x officers and 144 other ranks would comprise the AHQ Survey Regiment. On the reverse side of the first page of the handwritten notes is a hand drawn (not to scale) overall plan of the Fortuna site. The notes are believed to be written by Valerie Lovejoy as part of her research for the writing of her Master's Thesis and the book "Mapmakers of Fortuna" (Catalog item number 6000). The remaining photocopies are official letters to the Director General of the Department of Works about the Fortuna Master Plan dated 24 July 1961.

Physical description

Four Foolscap sized typed text photocopied pages, torn back to A4 Size and stapled top left hand corner. There area a further two A4 sized typed text photocopies and four pages of hand written notes on A4 lined paper with reinforced hole punching and stapled.