Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (4682 pages)
Year: (1916) 2013
ISBN: 9781922063571
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 1916 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations (including teachers)
 - Trustees of cemeteries, hospitals, racecourses, Schools of Arts, sports grounds, grammar schools, &c.
 - Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - Members of Boards and Committees
 - Brands and earmarks
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Errors in deeds
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy returns and notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - Rents on occupation licenses, List of rents of holdings; a variety of other land records
 - Licences– including auctioneers, bagatelle licences, licensed victuallers, winesellers, billiard licenses, fishing licences, packet licences and more
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, chemists, dentists, ministers of religion, surveyors
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - and much more including road closures, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY:

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME.
LOUIS RICHARD BASS, heretofore called and known by the name of "Louis Richard Bissenberger", of Townsville, in the State of Queensland, manager, hereby give public notice that, on the nineteenth day of January, 1916, I absolutely and formally renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of " Bissenberger," and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Louis Richard Bass” instead of “Louis Richard Bissenberger.” And I further give notice that by a Deed Poll dated the nineteenth day of January, 1916, duly executed and attested, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Bissenberger,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Louis Richard Bass” instead of “Louis Richard Bissenberger,” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Louis Richard Bass,” exclusively.
Dated the twenty-sixth day of June, 1916.
LOUIS RICHARD BASS (Late LOUIS RICHARD BISSENBERGER).
Witness to Signature— W. T. MITCHELL, J.P. Charters Towers.

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