VPRS 1134 Outwards Letter Book, Road Engineer, Sandhurst

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).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 Sandhurst (later Bendigo) 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 Sandhurst. This was most often a piece of correspondence received by the central office in Melbourne and forwarded to the 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.