Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (5185 pages)
Year: (1902) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957550
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 5,100 pages, the 1902 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
• Certificates of competency (under Marine Act)
• Classified Roll of State School teachers
• Contracts accepted – including supply of forage, supply of provisions, general stores for the Public Service
• Dealers in Poisons
• Estates of deceased persons
• Government appointments and general notices
• Insolvencies
• Land Tax Register and Valuation for Victoria
• Land records including leases, licenses, grants, renewals and permits
• Licensed Surveyors
• Mining companies and leases granted; shareholders of mining companies
• Ministers of religion registered to celebrate marriages
• Patents and trademarks
• Pharmaceutical Register
• Register of Medical Practitioners
• Register of Dentists
• Public Service– 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 – for cemeteries &c.
• Vermin districts – lists of voters
• and much more

INSPECTOR OF EXPLOSIVES.
IT is hereby notified that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, by an Order made on the 16th day of July, 1900, appointed
GEORGE STONE (Senior Messenger in the Department of Lands and Survey) to be an Inspector under the Explosives Act 1890 (see Government Gazette of 27th July, 1900, p. 2898), and by an order made on the 2nd day of March, 1901, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council confirmed the promotion of the aforesaid George Stone, his appointment as Inspector to date from the 27th June, 1900.

THOS. BRISBANE,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
At the Executive Council Chamber, Melbourne, the 21st January, 1902.

This product contains high quality scanned images of the original gazette. It 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