P007267 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2023-09-06 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-03-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007267b.htm State Archives and Records Authority New South Wales Agency ID: AGY-517 corporateBody Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners State of New South Wales AACR2 Sydney Harbour Trust 11 February 1901 1 February 1936 Start Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia End Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Port Authority Established by the Sydney Harbour Trust Act, 1901 (Act No.1, 1901), the Trust consisted of three commissioners appointed by the Governor, to be generally responsible for the improvement and preservation of the Port of Sydney. It had power to regulate the movement of vessels and the handling of cargo in the port through a Harbour Master, to carry out dredging operations, remove wrecks, grant licences for the erection of piers, maintain wharf facilities and collect wharfage rates, maintain swimming baths, fire fighting and other safety equipment. All foreshores, lighthouses and tugs within the harbour which belonged to the Government were vested in the Trust, which also had the power to reclaim land for the erection of necessary infrastructure. In 1936, the Sydney Harbour Trust was dissolved, and the Maritime Services Board was established. Adams, Walter Edward (1861 - 1939)

Engineer-in-chief 1919 - 1926; Design engineer 1901 - 1919.

 Walsh, Henry Deane (1853 - 1921)

Engineer-in-chief 1901 - 1919.

 Mackenzie, Arthur Cecil (1873 - 1956)

Assistant engineer 1901 - 1906

 State of New South Wales (1901 - ) 'Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Chapter 7: Harbour works Rich, Norman Chapter 7: Harbour works Crows Nest, New South Wales Engineers Australia 1989 Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney Don Fraser 151-168