Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2870 pages)
Year: (1908) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957246
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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 1908 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations for Civil and Public Service
 - Trustees of cemeteries, Grammar schools, reserves for recreation &c.
 - Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - Members of Boards and Committees
 - Brands
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Errors in deeds
 - Forfeited selections
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy returns and notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - Licences including auctioneers, bagatelle, packet, wholesale spirit dealers, victuallers, billiards, fishing, tobacco and winesellers
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, chemists, ministers of religion, auditors, surveyors
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - And other things including road closures, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY:

In the Supreme Court of Queensland.
In the Will of John Strange Norton, formerly of Mungindi, in the State of Queensland, but late of Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, retired Customs officer, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that, after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof. application will be made to this Honourable Court for the Sealing of the Probate of the Will of John Strange Norton, formerly of Mungindi, in the State of Queensland, but late of Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, retired Customs officer, deceased, granted by the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in its Probate Jurisdiction, at Sydney aforesaid, on the twelfth day of November, 1907.
Dated this sixteenth day of January, 1908.
WILLIAM MORSE,
94A Queen street, Brisbane,
Solicitor for Willie Frederick Arthur Larcombe and James Paul Larcombe, both of Sydney aforesaid, accountants, the Executors of the said Will.

This product contains high quality scanned images of the original gazette. It 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