NRS-1294 | Letters received [State Fisheries Branch]

Full description

The majority of the correspondence files of the State Fisheries Branch up to 1940 are with the Department. Those that are listed here came to the then Archives Office intermixed with the correspondence of the Chief Secretary's Department and are far from complete.

1. Main series, 1925-31, 1934-35 ( 5/9217-44), 1942-45 (10/37192-37200 part), 1946-68 (10/41715-49, 13/9533-77), 1969-70 (14/5525-38).
   These letters are filed in registered number order.
2. Miscellaneous subject bundles, 1905-48 (4/6635-39, 5/9216). Papers on the following subjects are included:
   Gunnamatta Fish Hatchery, 1909-10 (4/6635.1)
   Survey of Sandon River, 1914 (4/6636.2)
   Oyster Ground open for leasing, 1916 (4/6636.2)
   Expenditure, 1922 (4/6636.2)
   Amended Regulations re Standard Oyster Bags, 1921-22 (4/6636.2)
   Estimates of expenditure, 1921-23 (4/6635.2, 4/6636.1)
   Rent of Boatshed on the Clarence River at Lawrence, 1922-23 (5/9216.3)
   Public Oyster Reserve, Kurraring Creek, 1923 (4/6636.2)
   Lake Illawarra, 1921-24 (4/6636.2)
   Handling of Fish, 1922-26 (4/6636.2)
   Fish Agents Licences, 1925-26 (4/6636.2)
   Leasing of Training Walls, Richmond River (Public Oyster Walls, Ballina), 1927 (4/6636.2)
   Economies in the Public Service, 1923-27 (5/9216.4)
   Fishing in Umberumberka Reservoir, 1915-30 (4/6639.1)
   Closure of the Richmond River, 1921-31 (5/9216.1)
   Appointment of Honorary Assistant Inspectors of Fisheries, 1926-31 (5/9216.5)
   Sale of Fish by Auction, 1928-32 (5/9216.2)
   Appointment of Assistant Inspectors, 1911-30, 1938 (4/6637.1-.2, 4/6638.1)
   Proclamations relating to Public Oyster Reserves, 1916-38 (4/6639.2)
   Sale of Fish, 1945 (4/6638.2)
   National Security Regulations: Applications for Essential Consumers Certificate, 1945-46 (4/6638.1-.2)
   Municipal Fish Markets, Quota Sheets, 1946 (4/6638.2)

137 boxes (part).

Note:
This description, as amended, is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd edition, 2000.