Party: Lands Department
Summary
Extensive holding covering all aspects of Departmental jurisdiction from 1860. Records concern administration in general, sale and selection of all categories of land use, soldier settlement schemes, immigration and related land settlement programmes, government owned pastoral stations, pests and their control, e.g. rabbits and prickly pear. A selective listing is as follows:
Letterbooks, in-letters, correspondence files, August 1866-1942. LAN/22-24, LAN/183, LAN/A1-6, LAN/A8-56, LAN/G1-9, LAN/H1-11, LAN/J1-2, SOME RECORDS RESTRICTED.
Numerous registers regarding land applications, lease and free hold, Land Agents districts, land regulations, sales etc., ca 1874-ca 1938. LAN/26-81. OPEN A,B,C.
Proceedings, submissions and associated papers regarding Conference on the development of North Queensland land, July 1932. LAN/117. OPEN A,B,C.
Reports from Land Commissioners, Aramac to Toowoomba, relating to the prickly pear pest, September 1887-March 1902. LAN/128. OPEN A,B,C.
Additional records regarding prickly pear. LAN/129-130, LAN/134-136, LAN/194-198, LAN/206-207, LAN/T1-41. OPEN A,B,C.
Registers of applications to occupy Crown Lands under the Immigration Act of 1869, January 1870-December 1884. LAN/151. OPEN A,B,C.
Register of State stations, 1918-1920. LAN/N11. OPEN A,B,C.
Records relating to pastoral holdings from 1860, (extensive holding). LAN/N1-175, LAN/01-062. OPEN A,B,C.
Records relating to land selections from 1860, (extensive holdings). LANP1-565, LAN/Q1-29, LAN/R1-20. OPEN A,B,C.
Records relating to occupational licenses from 1865. LAN/S1-190. OPEN A,B,C.
Holdings also include records relating to special leases, land sales and so on. Papers, correspondence and associated records relating to Soldier Settlement schemes, 1916-1931. LAN/167-172. OPEN A,B,C.
Land Auction Sales, Innisfail, under the Sugar Works Acts, records, 1924-1936. LAN/180-181. OPEN A,B,C.
Applications to select land under section 23 of the Immigration Act of 1869, by the Peak Downs Copper Mining Company, June 1875-May 1876. LAN/221. OPEN A,B,C.
Executive minutes, part 1925, January 1926-December 1933, January 1935-December 1939. LAN/E1-78. 30 A,B,C.
Correspondence and general files relating to Soldier Settlement, 1915-1962. LAN/AU1-79, LAN/AV1-12. 30 A,B,C.
Assorted records relating to the rabbit pest, rabbit proof fencing. Marsupial Board files etc., ca 1893-1939.