Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 218MB (4037 pages)
Year: (1874) 2024
ISBN: 9781742229461
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

The Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. They were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.

The New South Wales Government Gazette of 1874 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - auriferous leases
 - appointments to Public School Boards
 - Deeds of Grant ready for delivery
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - errors in deeds
 - horse and cattle brands
 - insolvents
 - land for sale
 - lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, pre-emptive leases
 - licensed surveyors
 - licences including auctioneers; billiard and bagatelle; timber; packet; publicans; wine, cider and perry licences
 - magistrates appointed
 - medical practitioners
 - ministers of religion
 - petitions and counter-petitions
 - proclamations
 - Post Office mail contractors
 - probate and letters of administration notices
 - rents not paid and leases lapsed
 - schedule of roads applied for to be closed and alienated (and the applicants)
 - shareholders
 - trademarks
 - trustees of commons
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Sydney , 4th March, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased, under tie 3rd section of the “Commons Regulation Act of 1873,” to nominate the undermentioned gentlemen as Trustees for the Wagga Wagga Commons—no Trustees for the same having been elected in January last, viz.:
Messrs. George Forsyth, George Mair, Charles Wall, Robert Nixon, and Thomas Henry Cummins.
HENRY PARKES.

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