NRS-17676 | Official Minutes of Board Meetings [Hunter District Water Board]

This series consists of the Official Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board and its successor, the Hunter District Water Board, for the period 1892 until 1995. The function of the Board was financing the construction, maintenance and administration of the water supply, sewerage and storm-water drainage works within its area of operations - the cities of Newcastle, Greater Cessnock and Maitland, as well as the Municipality of Lake Macquarie and the Shire of Port Stephens.This series, which includes 86 volumes, constitutes an official record of the proceedings at each of the monthly meeting of the Board.This series is closely related to series  NRS-17675 which is the index to the volumes for the years 1892- 1903. Each volume after 1903 begins with an index in the front of the volume.The first volume in the series Volume 1 covering July 1892 till August 1904 is missing as of May 2014. Volume 2 begins in September of 1904.It seems that over time the Hunter Water boards activities grew and more committee meetings  and reports took place and by 1986 the decision was made to separate the board minutes and committee reports when before they were recorded as one.This decision seems to have been made mid year: volume 76 being the Official Board Meeting Minutes and 76a being the Committee Reports for the second half of the year, this is the only time the letter A is used. After this the numbering continues as normal with 77 being Official minutes and 78 being Committee reports for the same period.Physically the collection is in good condition. The size and style of the volumes varies the first 20 volumes are folio size leather bound books in average condition they have the volume number on the spine and no information on the cover the leather is deteriorating and some spines are damaged with loose pages.  Volumes 22-29 are A4 size printed documents secured with screw post binding. They are in average condition with some paper labels on the spine missing. The next section from 1943 to 1985 is similar in style to the previous ones but the spine is bound in leather they list the year on the spine and no volume number. Towards the end these books become very large and unmanageable. You can presume that this was part of the reason the committee reports and official minutes were separated.  The rest of the books are covered in fabric with the date on the spine. They are in good condition with the front cover labelled with the title and date range.

本系列涵盖1892年至1995年间，亨特区供水与排水委员会（Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board）及其后继机构亨特区水务局（Hunter District Water Board）董事会会议的正式纪要。该委员会的职能为其运营区域内的供水、排水及雨水排放工程的建设、维护与管理提供资金支持，运营区域包括纽卡斯尔市、大塞斯诺克区、梅特兰市，以及湖马科里自治区（Municipality of Lake Macquarie）和斯蒂芬斯港郡（Shire of Port Stephens）。
本系列共计86卷，完整记录了董事会历次月度会议的议事进程，属于官方档案。
本系列与编号为NRS-17675的档案系列关联紧密，后者为1892年至1903年各卷册的索引。1903年之后出版的每卷卷首均配有索引。
截至2014年5月，本系列第1卷（涵盖1892年7月至1904年8月）缺失。第2卷始于1904年9月。
随着时间推移，亨特水务委员会的业务规模逐步扩大，委员会会议及报告数量增多，1986年管理层决定将董事会纪要与委员会报告分离开来——此前二者曾合并记录。该决定于年中作出：第76卷为正式董事会会议纪要，76a卷为该年下半年的委员会报告，这也是唯一一次使用后缀字母“A”的情况。此后编号恢复常规：第77卷为同期正式会议纪要，第78卷则为同期委员会报告。
该馆藏实体整体保存状况良好。各卷册的尺寸与装帧风格存在差异：前20卷为对开皮革装帧书籍，整体保存状况一般，书脊标注有卷号，但封面无任何标识，皮革存在老化现象，部分书脊受损且内页松动。第22至29卷为A4幅面印刷文档，采用螺柱装订，整体状况一般，部分书脊上的纸质标签已缺失。1943年至1985年的馆藏风格与此前类似，但书脊采用皮革装帧，仅标注年份而无卷号。后期馆藏书籍体积愈发庞大，难以妥善管理，这也是促成委员会报告与会议纪要分离的原因之一。剩余馆藏采用织物装帧，书脊标注有日期，整体保存状况良好，封面正面印有标题及日期范围。