Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (4017 pages)
Year: (1918) 2013
ISBN: 9781922063861
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 1918 Queensland Government Gazette has information regarding:
 - Appointments, promotions and resignations (including teachers)
 - Brands and earmarks
 - Commissioners for taking Affidavits
 - Dissolution of business partnerships
 - Errors in deeds
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - Intestacy notices
 - Insolvency notices
 - Licences
 - Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - Members of Boards and Committees
 - Probate notices
 - Professional lists including medical practitioners, dentists, ministers of religion
 - Rents on land held under occupation licenses, list of rents of pastoral holdings; and a variety of other land records
 - Transmissions of real estate by death
 - Trustees of abattoirs, cemeteries, cricket grounds, hospitals, racecourses etc.
 - and much more including closure of roads, unclaimed property and tender notices

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 31 January 1918 issue): 

NOTICE OF REGISTERED MINISTERS OF RELIGION AUTHORISED TO CELEBRATE MARRIAGES IN QUEENSLAND.
Name / Address / Registry District

BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
Albury, Alfred Ernest / Charters Towers / Kennedy
Ashworth, Thomas Edward / Lanefield / Ipswich
Barnard, Arthur / Mount Morgan / Mount Morgan
Barnett, Exekiel / Clayfield / Brisbane
Bell, William M.A. / South Brisbane / Brisbane
Bugg, Isaac Joseph / Silkstone / Ipswich
Crawford, Walter Edward / Ipswich / Ipswich

This product contains high quality scanned images of each issue of the 1918 original gazettes. These have 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