Compulsory purchase files containing petitions to the Education Department from school boards desirous of acquiring land in accordance with the procedure laid down in section 20 of the Elementary Education Act 1870.
Accompanying the petitions are schedules, plans of lands, statutory declarations and similar documents, correspondence with inspectors and reports from them on the sites concerned and printed copies of the provisional orders made by the Education Department and of confirming parliamentary acts.
Papers relating to compulsory purchase have since 1919 been put on the files for the schools concerned.