Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3190 pages)
Year: (1909) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957543
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 1909 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations for Civil and Public Service
 - Trustees of cemeteries, cricket grounds, hospitals, racecourses, showgrounds, recreation reserves &c.
 - Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - Members of Boards and School Committees
 - Brands
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy returns and notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - List of rents of holdings and rents on occupation licenses
 - Licences: including auctioneers, wholesale spirit dealers, licensed victuallers, winesellers, packet licences and billiard licenses
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, chemists, dentists, ministers of religion, surveyors and auditors
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - And other ...– including road closures, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY:

Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, 30th April, 1909.
IT is hereby notified, for general information, that Nicholas Corcoran, Ernest Thomas Bell, and Arthur Edward Lisle Mort, have been re-elected Members of the Board for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of "The Rabbit Boards Act, 1896," within the Moreton Rabbit District.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original gazettes. These have been 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