Party: Harbour Boards - Mackay. Mackay Habour Board, Outer Harbour, Mackay
Summary
An extensive collection of Board records is held, dating from 1887.
STRONG ROOM
Annual reports, 1900-1950, 1 vol., 1951-present, 1 vol.
Minutes of Board meetings, 1895-present, some 21 vols, indexed.
Business records, including correspondence files, letterbooks, journals, ledgers, cash books, register of harbour dues and vouchers, from ca.1895, some 150 vols, some items are frail.
Shipping registers, from 1929.
Newspaper cutting books, extracts chiefly from the Mackay Mercury, from 1915, 7 vols.
Photographs, views of engineering and developmental projects, Mackay Harbour Board, from 1935, 1 album. Additional single prints on a variety of local subjects.
OFFICE HOLDINGS
Historical files. Records relating to harbour construction projects, including Reports of Committee of Inquiry into Mackay District and Harbour Board Projects, 1887-1937, 1 folder.
Records of Old Outer Harbour Schemes, including harbour construction details, government inquiries and reports, newspaper extracts and special historical editorials, 1887-1937, 1 folder.
BOARD ROOM
Photographs, framed portraits of Board chairmen and Harbour Board groups, from 1927.