Records Relating to Local Government Incinerators [Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough] (Series 1421)

This series concerns consultations for the municipalities of Leichhardt, Woollahra, Willoughby, and Randwick about incinerators, also referred to as garbage destructors; for the Municipality of Parkes about a power station engine and for the Municipal Council of Sydney regarding coal at Bunnerong Power Station. The records include correspondence addressed to Samuel HE Barraclough; transcripts of official governmental correspondence; photographs (35 photographic prints and 6 negatives created by the University Archives) of various incinerators in NSW and Victoria; data sheets recording results of tests; notes for an address given in Randwick and other working papers, and press reports of a controversy about the Leichhardt Municipality incinerator. The documents are arranged chronologically by municipality.