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Home>Records & Archives>Council Archives / Historical Records within Loddon Shire
| Loddon has significant records in its custody which document the story of our local government. This includes rate books, council minutes, correspondence, maps, plans and photographs. Current Council minutes are available on Loddon’s website at http://loddon.vic.gov.au
Loddon holds a variety of records from the three previous shires of East Loddon, Gordon and Korong. The most important of these are the Council Rates and Minute Books.
In Victoria permanent public records, once they are no longer of administrative use, are transferred to the Public Record Office Victoria http://www.prov.vic.gov.au . Each Victorian government agency is assigned a Victorian Agency (VA) number, and each individual type of record or “series” is assigned a Victorian Public Record Series (VPRS) number. This is the basic information you need to be able to find records within PROV’s catalogue system.
There have been a few transfers of records from Gordon Shire (VA 2434) and Korong Shire (VA 636). Some of the Shire of East Loddon (VA 2426) records have recently been transferred to PROV. The records that are located at North Melbourne are:
East Loddon Shire - Rate Books 1865 -1953 (VPRS 16552)
East Loddon Shire - Rate Cards 1954 - 1985 (VPRS 16553)
Gordon Shire - Shire records various 1886 - 1964 (VPRS 1414)
Gordon Shire - Rate Books 1926 - 1961 (VPRS 10541)
Korong Shire - Minute Books 1929 - 1964 (VPRS 10168)
Korong Shire - Balance Books 1927 - 1962 (VPRS 10169)
Korong Shire - Rate Books 1867 - 1938 (VPRS 16554)
Loddon Shire Council is currently working on appraising and processing the backlog of archival material. It is Council’s intent both to preserve the original material and to ensure the accessibility of these records within the shire. Due to the fragile nature of many of these volumes, particularly the early Korong Shire rate books, many of these volumes have been digitised through funding provided by Council. Rate Books Online
It must be noted however, that it will not be possible to digitise every single historical record within our holdings, however it is hoped that a number of the main series will be made available for public use.
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