Thanks for this Jennifer - I shall certainly let the inquirer know this as well. Again it was hard to know what she had been actually looking at so your infor is certainly worth knowing as well. kind regards, Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Crockett" <jcrockett@optusnet.com.au> To: <aus-vic-geelong-district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Land Files >I replied to this yesterday, but the email is still coming. Here is another > take on it. But it might only refer to government departments. In these > cases R might stand for "request" and P for "Property" See below for quote > from PROV web site: > > "The Property Division filing system was an alpha-numeric system. The file > number format comprised a letter prefix followed by a sequential number. > > R files: request files related to all new requests directed to > Accommodation > Planning and Audit Group for assessment. These files were created when > client departments or other organisations requested accommodation, or the > purchase of a property. All the leasing and purchasing negotiations were > documented in these R files. > > An example would be : a request by the Police Department for new premises > for their dog squad in Brunswick. > > The file number would be R 123 and the title would be Request For New > Premises : Police Dog Squad. > > Once a suitable premises was found and either the lease or purchase > negotiations were finalised by the Projects and Consultancy Group the file > was handed over to the Property Management Section to handle the ongoing > maintenance and leasing and purchasing details of the premises. At this > stage the letter prefix changed from R to P. > > P Files: there were three types of property files: leased property, > government owned property and outgoings files. All three types were > identified by the prefix P." > > But that might not be what the Original Poster had in mind. Perhaps it is > roods and perches, though the abbreviation of rood is rd. See this for an > explanation of the origin of acres, roods, perches and furlong: > http://www.sizes.com/units/acre.htm > > Jennifer > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-vic-geelong-district-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:aus-vic-geelong-district-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pam & > Trevor Jennings > Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2010 3:54 PM > To: geelong district > Subject: [GEELONG] Land Files > > Wonder if anyone knows what the phrase 'R & P' means in correspondence in > Land Files at PROV? Unfortunately I have not seen this in any files I have > looked at, nor do I have a sentence with it in, which may help as well! > The > person I am trying to help has seen it several times so it was not > particular to any one file. > thanks for any suggestions, Pam Jennings > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District > http://zades.com.au > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message