Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 123MB (1973 pages)
Year: (1870) 2025
ISBN: 9781742225531
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 7 January 1870 issue):

FIVE POUNDS REWARD
STOLEN or strayed from Shea's Flat., Ararat, a bay mare, branded WB near shoulder, WB off shoulder. £5 reward if stolen, on conviction of thief, or £1 if strayed, by applying to James McKay, Shea's Flat. No. 15

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