Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 62MB (563 pages)
Year: (1942) 2024
ISBN: 9781921494659
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

A fascinating resource for historians, the Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force, much of which cannot be found in other records. You can expect the 'South Australian Police Gazettes' to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes private details, descriptions with photograph, addresses and/or occupations:

• apprehensions
• complainants
• illegal immigrants
• escapees and absconders from custody
• exemptions from the 1941 Aboriginal Act
• lost or stolen property
• deserting wives, families, etc
• deserting from military service
• deserting from merchant vessels
• gold buyer, hawker, marine store licences
• inquests
• missing friends
• persons suspected or wanted for a crime and warrants issued
• police promotion examination results and appointments
• prisoners tried at supreme and circuit courts
• prisoners discharged from gaols

Gazettes are published by governments and their agencies as a means of communication to officials and the general public. As such they are useful, not only to monitor the actions of the government, but also as far as family historians are concerned, they are valuable primary source documents.

SAMPLE ENTRIES:

Hawkers' Licences [note: only A & B surnames noted in this extract]
The following list of hawkers' licences issued for the year ending 25th March, 1943, is published for general information.
83 Ackerie, Stephen, 63 Whitmore Square, Adelaide, motor vehicle.
38 Aldenhoven, Clement Charles, Arthurton, motor vehicle.
10 Badenoch, Doreen Margaret, Carey Gully, motor vehicle.
1 Baird, Robert Harold Leslie, 102 Hawker Street, Croydon, tricycle.
247 Berry, Ernest Joseph, 3 Mayfair Street, Maylands, motor vehicle.
51 Beshara, Minnie, 96 Gray Street, Adelaide, pack.
167 Brooks, Eric Glen, Clarendon, motor vehicle.
291 Brown, William John, 340 Anzac Highway, Mornington, motor vehicle.
147 Burnett, Percy Stanley, Davenport Road, Holdsworthy Park, pack.
134 Buttrose, Kenneth Murray, Robertstown, four-wheeled vehicle. strong

Return of Prisoners Discharged from H.M. Gaols during the week ended 13th June, 1942
James Henry Tester, alias Renment, England, old age pensioner, born 1857, 5ft. 8in., medium build, fair complexion, grey hair, blue eyes, Roman nose, medium mouth, round chin, blind in left eye, wears glasses (P.G., 1936, page 296, "Discharges" and 1942, page 76 "Apprehensions", and S.A. Photo. Book 23/102). P.C., Adelaide, 14/5/42, idle and disorderly; 28 days. Discharged 10/6/42.

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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