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Series VPRS
12553
Record Book of Probationers, Traffic Branch
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? 1888 - ? 1925
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1888 - 1925
Contents
1888 - 1925
Public Access:
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Location:
North Melbourne
Format of Records:
Physical
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? 1888 - ? 1925
Victorian Railways (also Victorian Railways Commissioners 1883-1973, Victorian Railways Board 1973-1983)
VA 2876
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1989 - cont
Public Transport Corporation
VA 2984
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Examine the only extant book, which is for the period 1888 to 1925.
Function / Content
The series summarised information on probationers within the Traffic Branch (junior porters, junior clerks, carriage cleaners, shunters and labourers).
The information recorded included, for each employee:
-- Examination Number and Grade Passed
-- Name and Age
-- Commencement and Finish date (of probation period)
-- Pay/ Salary
-- Certificate issued to the Accountant (completion of probation).
Recordkeeping System
Entries up to March 1889 do not appear to have been made in any alphabetical or other sequence.
From March 1889 entries were made alphabetically within each Grade (i.e. Junior Clerk, Lad Porter, Carriage Cleaner).
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1888 - 1925
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