Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926

Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926. Land surveyors carefully depicted the boundaries of properties and roadways, often masking variations in the actual layout of a town. At Mount Shamrock, the mapping of leases was an important step as it was part of administrative acknowledgement of the existence of a town that had in fact been present for almost 30 years. Collection of Geraldine Mate.