VPRS 1130 Outwards Letter Book, Road Engineer Kilmore

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The Central Roads Board, the first agency concerned with the construction and maintenance of main roads and bridges, was abolished on 1 January 1858 and succeeded by the Department of Roads and Bridges (VA 2964) which operated under the statutory control of the Board of Land and Works (VA 744). The Department of Railways and Roads (VA 2875) succeeded the Department of Roads and Bridges (VA 2694) in 1872 when the Secretary of the Department of the Railways also became the Secretary of the Department of Roads and Bridges.

All of these agencies had Road Engineers located in provincial centres responsible for the execution of contracts, supervision of contractors, and the forwarding of payments, specifications, estimates and plans. This series contains copies of the correspondence, memoranda and reports from the Road Engineer stationed at Kilmore to officers of the central agency, contractors and members of the workforce.

This series also contains a summary of annotated correspondence dealt with by the office of the Road Engineer Kilmore. This was most often a piece of correspondence received by the central office in Melbourne and forwarded to the Kilmore Road Engineer for report or comment as the subject was deemed to be related to his area of responsibility. With a summary of the forwarded correspondence where appropriate, after the notes, reference number and date are notes regarding action to be taken with reference to the piece of correspondence and the annotations placed upon it. Rather than a new piece of correspondence being produced, the original forwarded piece was annotated with the response and forwarded back to the office of origin.