Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 160MB (3379 pages)
Year: (1855) 2024
ISBN: 9781742225678
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.

They may include:

• Government institutions & positions
• Impoundments
• Insolvency & bankrupt notices
• Land transactions
• Legal notices
• Licences
• Mining contracts
• Partnerships
• Patent & trademark applications
• Private advertisements
• Proclamations
• Statistics

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 2 January 1855 issue):

Colonial Secretary's Office, Melbourne, 8th December, 1854.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
WHEREAS EDWARD RYDER effected his escape from the Main Depot, at Pentridge, on the morning of Sunday, the 3rd of December, disguised in female clothing: Notice is hereby given that a reward of Five Pounds will be paid to any person who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension of the said EDWARD RYDER.
By His Excellency's Command, J.13,556., JOHN FOSTER.

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