Archives - Details
Record ID
HKRS287-1
Title
Files Relating to General Business of the Waterworks Office of the Public Works Department and its Successor
Date
1942 - 1980
Level
Deposit
Transferring Agency
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, WATER SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT, GENERAL SECTION
Scope and Content
Minutes memoranda, maps, location plans, telegrams, boring records, reports, statisical tables, memoranda of agreement, consulting engineers' agreements, pamphlets, planning reports, receipts, photograghs and miscellaneous letters relating to the businesses of water supplies, water emergencies, water resources surveys, construction of reservoirs, pumping stations nd water Treatment centres and other business of the concern of the office. (See Records Transfer List)..
Papers are assembled in the form of subject files. Attachments to each file are assembled chronologically with the earliest papers at the bottom.
Each file jacket bears its registration num,ber in thhe top right-hand corner with the subject of the file beaneath it.
Arrangement System
Modified year and multiple number system with letters prefix "WWO" (Water Works Office).
Conditions Governing Access
Public Records (Access) Rules 1996
Note
Former series title "General Correspondence Files" up to 8 January 2026.