Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 62MB (566 pages)
Year: (1945) 2024
ISBN: 9781921494802
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. 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

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 27 June 1945 issue):

Apprehensions listed for issue dated: 27 June 1945
Maurice Edward
Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Runge
Otto Siegfried Rothe
Hinrich Jacob
Harry James Thompson
Asmaile Swift
Jane Sophia Hodgson
Maisie Giles, aliases May Giles, Maisie Finch
Victor Clyde Kent Champion
John Peter
Leslie Charles Frisby
Arthur John David Whittle

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.

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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