VPRS 1752 Wages Records

The Country Roads Board had as its primary responsibility the care and management of the main roads of the state. In order to do so, it was necessary to employ on both a permanent and casual basis, a large workforce with a wide range of abilities and skills to perform duties anywhere in Victoria for varying periods of time. It is apparent that the management and payment of this workforce was a centralised function in the period covered by the records in custody. These are the records of Field Personnel located throughout the state only. The last two folders in the series are separately labelled Syndal for Syndal Depot Personnel.This series has the details of each employee, their location and remuneration for each financial year. In recreating the records each financial year, all employment records held were current and allowed the easy fulfilment of obligations for the payment of taxation, the monitoring of the wages budget for the financial year and allowed the linking of workforce to job or project.