Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 65MB (623 pages)
Year: (1945) 2024
ISBN: 9781921494857
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 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:

Prisoners tried at Supreme Court. Adelaide 29 May 1946 (Commencing on 1 April 1946).
Allan, Francis McGregor
Allard, Kathleen Mary Veronica
Breuer, Claude Hubert
Brooks, Clarence Albert
Brown, Gordon Frederick Ferguson, alias Gordon
Ferguson, Frederick Brown
Collins, Harry Ernest
Cook, Richard Donald
Gundry, Ernest John
Harris, Francis
Hassan, Fred, alias Hussan
Helbig, Arthur Edwin
Johnstone, Lindsay George, alias Lindsay
Gordon Johnstone
Just, John William, alias Bill Just
Keldoulis, Chris
Lewry, William Albert
Lloyd, George Harry
Nixon, John Stephen
Purton, Bruce Louis, alias Louis Bruce Purton
Riley, Reginald James
Rowe, Garnet Pearson Lewis
Ruediger, John Berthold
Stephens, Thomas
Trevena, William Gilbert
Tuckey, Arthur William
Verran, Lancelot
Weir, Roy Stewart, aliases Roy Stuart Weir, Keen

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.

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