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Christchurch City Council. Public Works Committee (1867-1889)

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1867 - 1889

Biography

The Public Works committee is first mentioned in committee reports from 1867, however many of the functions of this committee including managing roading and city infrastructure and included in reports back to the start of the Council in 1862. The surviving meeting minutes for this committee begin in 1869. This committee then became the Works Committee in 1889.

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Committee Reports, 1862-1867

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S110/2/1
Scope and Contents

Christchurch City Council reports for committees. Committees at this time were formed for the purpose of preparing a report on a specific subject whilst others meet regularly to discuss issues on a particular area. Those that met regulary include:

Accounts/Finance Bylaws Public Works Lighting Sanitary Christchurch Volunteer Fire Brigade Cathedral Square Roadway Hackney Carriages Drainage Licencing

Dates: 1862-1867

Committees Minute Book, 1868 - 1869

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/1
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees.

Includes the following committees: Public Works; Finance; Fire Brigade; Bylaws; Burgess Roll; Public Baths; Governors Reception; General Committee for the Reception of HRH Duke of Edinburgh.

Note that there is no index available for this volume.

Dates: 1868 - 1869

Committees Minute Book, 1869 - 1871

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/2
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees. Includes the following committees: Public Works; Fire Brigade; Water Supply; Cathedral Square Roadway/Cathedral Square; Bylaws; Finance; Lighting.Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council Committee Reports and Notices of MeetingNote that there is no index...
Dates: 1869 - 1871

Committees Minute Book, 1871 - 1872

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/3
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees. Includes the following committees: Public Works; Fire Brigade Cathedral Square Roadway/Cathedral Square; Bylaws Finance Lighting Cab Fares (1871)Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council Committee Reports and Notices of MeetingNote that there is no index...
Dates: 1871 - 1872

Committees Minute Book, 1873 - 1874

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/4
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees. Includes the following committees: Public Works; Fire Brigade; Bylaws; Finance; Lighting; Local Board of Health; Market Place/Market Committee (1873).Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council Committee Reports and Notices of MeetingNote that there is no...
Dates: 1873 - 1874

Committees Minute Book, 1876 - 1879

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/7
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees. Includes the following committees: Public Works; Fire Brigade; Sanitary; Local Board of Health; Bylaws; Finance; Lighting.This volume has a subject index at the front.Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council Committee Reports and Notices of...
Dates: 1876 - 1879

Committees Minute Book, 1879 - 1881

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/8
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees. Includes the following committees: Public Works; Finance; Sanitary; Reserves (From 1879); Fire Brigade; Water Supply; Special Meeting to Consider the Question of Unemployed (24 May 1879); Bylaws and Municipal Offices becoming Designs for Municipal Offices.Includes some minutes of meetings titled 'The Whole Council' which relate to buisness across all committees but appear to be separate to the main Council...
Dates: 1879 - 1881

Committees Minute Book, 1881 - 1884

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/9
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees.Includes the following committees - Public Works; Finance; Fire Brigade; Sanitary; Water Supply; Bylaws; Reserves; Lighting; Departmental; Cemeteries (from 1883); Library.Also includes some in committee meeting minutes 1881 - 1884.Note that there is no index available for this volume.Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at ...
Dates: 1881 - 1884

Committees Minute Book, 1884 - 1886

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/11
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees.Includes the following committees: Public Works; Finance; Cemeteries; Fire Brigade; Sanitary; Bylaws; Reserves and Conference of Local Bodies for Board of Health (1885).This volume has a subject index at the back.Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council...
Dates: 1884 - 1886

Committees Minute Book, 1886 - 1889

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Identifier: CCC/ARC/S81/2/12
Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of Christchurch City Council committees.Includes the following committees: Public Works; Finance; Cemetery; Fire Brigade; Sanitary; Bylaws; Reserves; Lighting.This volume has a subject index at the back.Reports from committees are available from 1862-1895 at CCC/ARC/S110/2 Christchurch City Council Committee Reports and Notices of...
Dates: 1886 - 1889