When the Club vacated their premises there were a large number of pilot log books that were still held in the club's custody
There is no CASA requirement for pilots log books to be held in flying schools custody. They are belong to their owners especially as they have usually paid for them. When students decide to transfer to another flying school for whatever reason, there are cases when the first flying school has deliberately held on to these log books to spite the student for leaving. Some years ago in Victoria a fire in the club building caused the destruction of all students log books. That caused a real administrative headache which the students wore.