Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (4812 pages)
Year: (1898) 2010
ISBN: 9781742228181
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

The 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.

A massive volume of over 4,800 pages, the 1898 gazette includes information relating to a wide variety of topics – of interest to both genealogists and historians:

• Auditors – list of persons authorised to act as Auditors for Companies
• Business partnerships – both the creation and dissolution
• Classified Roll of State School teachers
• Contracts accepted – including supply of forage, supply of provisions, general stores for the Public Service
• Government appointments and general notices
• Intestacies, insolvencies and wills
• Land records including leases and licenses
• Licensed Surveyors
• Lost and stolen animals, impoundings
• Magistrates appointments
• Mining companies and leases granted
• Patents and trademarks
• Register of Medical Practitioners
• Register of Dentists
• Public Service Board – list of employees
• Roll of Merchants and Traders, Roll of Underwriters, Roll of Ship Owners, Roll of Pilots, Roll of Engineers, Roll of Masters, and Roll of Seamen (under Marine Act 1890)
• Trustees – including church land, and cemetery sites, Mechanics Institutes, libraries, racecourses
• Unclaimed letters
• Victorian Military Forces – appointments, transfers, resignations

Some other items of interest in the 1898 Gazette are: Names and addresses of shareholders of various mining companies, Land Tax Register and Valuation for Victoria, and results of Public Service examinations.

Example entry:

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY.
Trustees,
WILLIAM MCNAB,
JAMES ROBERTS, and
ARTHUR SAMUEL MADDER
to be Trustees of the land permanently reserved on the 6th July, 1891. as a site for a Mechanics' Institute and Free Library at Corack, vice John Warne, James Free, and John Peter Combs all resigned

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the years issues, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text