Guide 3 to NSW State Archives relating to Responsible Government - OCR - Flipbook - Page 150
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Proposed transfer of bankruptcy administration to the
Commonwealth, 1906-21,1924-28
CGS 333,
[5/7781]
This bundle comprises correspondence and printed papers
concerning the necessity for uniform bankruptcy laws throughout
the Commonwealth of Australia, Premiers' and interstate
conferences to discuss bankruptcy and company laws, a draft Bill
for an act relating to bankruptcy, 1912, and comments on the Bill.
The Commonwealth Bankruptcy Act 1924 came into force on
1 August 1928, and papers concerning the proposed conversion
from State to Federal control are included.
Colonial Secretary, later Chief Secretary
Report of the Committee into State Properties transferred
to the Commonwealth, 1903
CGS 1138,
[6/5544]
The Committee was appointed by the Premier and Chief Secretary,
Sir John See, on behalf of the Government of New South Wales, to
inquire into and report upon the value of State properties, prior to
their transfer to the Commonwealth (under Section 85 of the
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 63 and 64 Vic c.12).
The Committee began its investigation on 7 August 1901 and
presented its report on 26 October 1903. This volume of the
printed report has been signed by the Committee members. (The
first Chairman Critchett Walker had died and been replaced by
John Manifold Gibson.)
The report details such property for transfer as: Post and
Telegraph Offices; Custom Houses; Lighthouses and Quarantine;
Military Lands, Buildings, Fortifications, etc; Drill Halls in Country
towns; and Military Stores. It gives details of values of buildings,
including fittings, and of land as well as descriptions of sites.
Page 21 contains a statement of estimated rentals of properties
retained by the State (from 1 March 1901). The report also
contains block plans of 330 sites.
Governor
Despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies and
the Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia,
and related papers, concerning the transfer of the
administration of Norfolk Island from New South Wales to
the Commonwealth, 1902-14
CGS 4517,
[12/2064.1
part]
On 1 July 1914 Norfolk Island was placed under the authority of
the Commonwealth. While a separate settlement, Norfolk Island
had been closely associated with New South Wales since 1856. As
the Premier wrote in an August 1909 letter to the Prime Minister:
As a matter of history, Norfolk Island has been intimately
associated with New South Wales from its earliest days. At one
period the Island formed part of the Colony of New South
Wales, and although it was subsequently attached to form part
of the territory of Van Diemen's Land, yet after a few years the
Island was detached from Tasmania and constituted a distinct
and separate settlement. On this occasion it was declared by
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