VPRS 998 Letter Book - Quantity Surveyors Office

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The Public Works Department (VA 669) had wide-ranging responsibilities for all public works and buildings, including construction, maintenance and fitting out of these buildings. Other major responsibilities included roads and bridges, ports and harbours, local government and water supply.

This series contains letter-press copies of memoranda and letters from the office of the Quantity Surveyor. Many of these are addressed to the Inspector-General being to do with major projects or with the provision of pricings for materials listed in the Schedules of Quantities for projects. Included are the indexes for memoranda found in VPRS 1001 Quantity Surveyors and Inspector of Works Records, Melbourne Law Courts.