NRS-14649 | Property cards - reserves

Full description

These cards are arranged alphabetically by the name of the town in which the Aboriginal reserve is located. In cases where there are individual dwellings involved there is a card for each one. Side one of the cards is headed rates and charges and records: property name; site details such as address and dimensions; Aboriginal reserve number with gazettal date of notification and/or revocation; valuations received from the Valuer General; improvements such as the date of construction of house, the capital cost of construction, kerb and guttering; lettings and disposal eg. date, tenant's name and rental.

The reverse side of the card is headed "payments made" and details the amount paid in rates and for services such as water, sewerage, sanitary and garbage collections for each year. Some cards are annotated with the date a particular reserve was transferred to the Aboriginal Lands Trust in 1975.

(4/10587-88). 2 boxes.

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