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Court of Petty Sessions depositions.
Hay Court House
Parish maps.
J. McNeill Simpson, solicitor of Hay
Maps and plans (includes Soldier Settlement Estates).
NSW Crown Lands, Wagga Wagga Office
Contract registers, covering Hay Internment Camp and Hay district and Euston Lock and Weir Works, cost ledgers, voucher debit books, abstract book and public buildings register.
NSW Public Works Advisory (2016-)Memories of Cobb and Co; Robert Givson and the Birth of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area; "Where the Porcupine Crossed the River" (Illiliwa); River Shipping on the Murrumbidgee; The Riverine Grazier, Hay's Newspaper; Hay Gun Club; Waradgery Shire, 1906-1960; Federal Parliamentary Representation of Hay and District; Early Days of Permewan Wright Ltd.; Booligal Post Office.
Hay Historical Society Inc.
Registered subject files and contracts.
Waradgery Shire Council
Correspondence; plans and specifications for ambulance station.
Ambulance Service of NSWBound volumes of the "The Riverine Grazier" newspaper (1941-1957).
The Riverine Grazier, Hay
Crown Land Agent registers.
Hay Land Office
Photographs of Riverina buildings and landmarks (1931-1950), including Wagga Wagga (mostly floods), Burrumbuttock, Finley, Leeton, Adelong Creek, Jerilderie, Hay, Deniliquin, irrigation areas, Tocumwal, Gundagai, Moira, Ivanhoe, Mossgiel, Pooncarie, Dareton, Mannus, Kyeamba, Humula, Wolseley Park, and Rosewood.
Letters from internees to Ruth Swan. Report on Internment Camp (1940) by Dr Sydney Morris of the Society of Friends, Sydney.
Ruth Hannah SwannBound volumes of the "The Riverine Grazier" newspaper (1873-1940).
The Riverine Grazier, Hay
Correspondence, reports, research papers, source files, subject files, draft manuscripts and notes, manuscripts, and published works ("Murrumbidgee Memories and Riverina Reminiscences" published 1985 and "An Australian Girl in Germany" re-published 1987).
Hilda Mary Hodge Freeman, researcher and writerSunshine and Shadow: sketches of a western parish (1918) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Out West for Thirty Years: notes of a ministry in the real Australia (1920) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Tracks Through the Bush: essays and sketches (1923); The Love That Never Faileth (1933); The Far Horizon and Beyond (1937).
Reverend William Robertson3 pamphlets relating to the Riverina: "The Great Land Question" by James Ashton; "Barren Jack Reservoir: Murrumbidgee Northern Water Supply and Irrigation Bill report by J Monash, Lower Murrumbidgee River Locking League"; and "The Waradgery Club Jubilee Year, 1885-1935".
Subject files.
Hay Municipal Council
Visitors' book, Minute books and cash books
Hay Athenaeum
Administrative and resumption file (WA 77/8), work position reports and management reports.
NSW Valuer General's Office (1999-2000)
Hay Shire Council rate and valuation books, minutes books, contract register, miscellaneous council registers, maps and plans, Waradgery valuation and rate books, minute books, general fund ledgers, register of legal documents and journal.
Hay Municipal Council
Correspondence, audited accounts, log sheets, annual reports, expenditure book and revenue book.
Ambulance Service of NSW