Bastian, Alfred Arthur Copland

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Unique IDPE-004558SurnameBastianGiven namesAlfred Arthur CoplandBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1884-1898Biographical noteBiographical details:
Town Clerk of Municipality of Willoughby, appointed May 1900; see Claude Leplastrier: Willoughby’s Fifty Years, A Retrospect (1865-1915), facsimile edition 1988, published by Willoughby Municipal Library

Treasurer of the Metropolitan Amateur Athletic Club [ref: The Australian Star 28 December 1889 p 5]

NSW BDMs Registry: Birth: 776/1871: BASTIAN ALFRED A C [parents] HENRY G & AMELIA F registered at Sydney

Death 308/1918: BASTIAN ALFRED A C [parents] HENRY & AMELIA registered at Sydney

Death Notice: BASTIAN- March 19 1918 at Sydney, suddenly, Arthur Alfred Copland Bastian of Takapuna Meredith street Chatswood late Town Clerk of Willoughby and son of the late Captain Henry Bastian in his 47th year. [ref: SMH 20 March 1918]

Death Report: [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 20 March 1918 p 12]

Funeral Notice: [ref: The Sun 20 March 1918 p 7]

Funeral Report: [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 22 March 1918 p 7]

Obituaries: [ref: The Daily Telegraph 20 March 1918 p 9]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 21 March 1918 p 5]; [ref: Evening News 22 March 1918 p 6]; [ref: The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta) 23 March 1918 p 6]

Details from contemporary sources:
1885 Seeks employment as clerk - appointed September telephone - passed junior Public Service Exam [ref: 26/206/1482]
1885 10/-week - Officers and Duties - in charge of telephones [ref: 30/001/094]
1885 Request increase; December - Lines, City Treasurer, commends him - "a promising and deserving little boy" [ref: 26/208/2104]
1886 Appointed 1 January 1886 to keep the daily register - Clerk [ref: 26/207/1753]
1886 Request increase - keeps Stock book and Material Register - steady and intelligent - Mountain recommends increase - present wage £1 per week - not granted [ref: 26/215/2084]
1887 Salary increase - January [ref: 26/217/039]
1888 Request increase - May [ref: 26/229/904]
1889 Request increase - February - granted 35/- per week [ref: 26/232/253]
1890 Request increase - May [ref: 26/242/1006]
1890 Request increase - December, denied by Mayor [ref: 26/246/2250]
1891 Request increase - February [ref: 26/248/492]
1891 Requisition and License Clerk - £2/10/- per week - City Surveyor's list, current April 1891 [ref: 26/249/801]
1891 Requests leave of absence, 1 week - October [ref: 26/253/1963]
1891 Appointed to official staff - December [ref: 22/42/51]
1892 Request increase - December [ref: 26/262/2431]
1893 Schedule of Salaries 1893-94 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/46/6]
1894 Schedule of Salaries 1894-95 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/47/57]
1895 Requisition & License Clerk - Report on salaries of employees - £130 pa [ref: 22/48/22½ (c)]
1895 Request increase - December [ref: 26/282/1540]
1896 Requests leave of absence, several weeks - October [ref: 26/287/1408]
1896 Request increase - December [ref: 26/288/1736]
1898 Clerk, Requisition and License -£156 pa - Return of Officers and Servants, January 1898, by the Town Clerk [ref: 22/55/1]
1898 Clerk - £156 pa - Recommendations on working of Corporation Departments - Partial return of employees at July 1898 [ref: 22/55/1]
1898 Requests leave of absence, to 21 August - July [ref: 26/300/1429]
1898 Resignation from 21 August 1898 [ref: 26/300/1439]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-000219

Relationships

CollectionPeople and PositionsOrganisationSydney City CouncilPositionClerk [City Surveyor's Department]Requisition & License Clerk [City Surveyor's Department]Switch Boy [multiple departments]Telephone Operator [City Surveyor's Department]Related itemsOfficers & Servants of the Sydney Corporation [names, positions, salaries, duties]Memorandum: RW Richards, City Surveyor - Staff who received wage increase in past 6 monthsReport of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1894Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1895Report of the Committee appointed to Inquire into and report upon staff salaries and wages, 1895Finance Committee Report - Re adoption of Report of Committee of Inquiry (re fraud)

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Bastian, Alfred Arthur Copland