NRS-2 | Minute books [Aborigines Welfare Board]

Full description

The Aborigines Welfare Board (formerly The Board for the Protection of Aborigines) held weekly meetings from 1890-1915 and then monthly meetings. These volumes comprise minutes of meetings of the Board to its final meeting when the Board was abolished and the Aborigines Welfare Directorate was established.
The minutes note members present and record the decisions of the Board. The early part of this series is in the form of agendas consisting of matters arising from previous meetings, business with other Departments, especially the Police and the Lands Department, and business with the Local Boards. Statements of accounts, monthly at first, then more frequently, were prepared for the agenda; by about 1897, however, only total expenditure and balance are recorded.
The agenda-type minute was discontinued around 1915, at which time the Minute books begin to include loose documents, such as typed financial statements, important correspondence, transcripts of Board meetings, and notices of Board members and meetings, as well as a record of attendances, and dates of appointments. From 1937, the minutes give the decisions of the Board in point form, followed by a statement of expenditure. Later the minute items usually give a correspondence file number.

25 Sep 1890-4 Jul 1901 (4/7108-15; microfilm copy SR Reels 2788-2789), 23 May 1905-11 Dec 1906 (4/7116, 4/7118, 4/7120; microfilm copy SR Reel 2790), 17 Mar 1910-14 Sep 1938 (4/7119, 4/7117, 4/7121-27; microfilm copy SR Reels 2790-2792), 5 Oct 1938-29 Apr 1969 (4/8544-48; microfilm copy SR Reels 2792-2794). 25 vols.

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