Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3630 pages)
Year: (1902) 2010
ISBN: 9781742229645
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 1902 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations for: Civil and Public Service; Trustees of cemetery reserves, recreation reserves, racecourse reserves, hospital reserves, Grammar schools &c.; Commissioners for taking affidavits and Justices of the Peace; and Members of Boards and Committees
 - Brands
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Errors in deeds
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy returns and notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - List of rents of special leases; rents on temporarily closed roads
 - Licences – including auctioneers, wholesale spirit dealers, licensed victuallers, wine sellers, billiard licenses, fishing and tobacco licenses
 - Lists of unclaimed letters
 - Patents and inventions
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, chemists and druggists, ministers of religion, surveyors
 - Queensland Defence Force appointments / results of examinations
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - Trademark registrations
 - Other including road closures, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY:

PATENTS.
GEORGE VINCENT WHITE, M.B.B.S., of Thursday Island, Torres Straits, North Queensland, and FRANK SUMMERS, of “Wai Weer,” Ernest street, North Sydney, New South Wales, diver. “A Trunk or Body Protector or Jacket for use by Divers.” Dated 6th July, 1901. (Drawings, 7s. 6d.; specification, 5s. 6d.)

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text