Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police
force. You can expect the New South Wales Police Gazettes to include the following
information that will usually list names and some times personal details, descriptions
with photograph, addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the
researcher:
• apprehensions
• complainants
• deaths in public places
• escapees and absconders from custody
• lost or stolen property and stock—names of victims; sketches of
jewellery and watches
• deserting wives, families, etc
• deserting from military service
• deserting from merchant vessels
• inquests
• missing friends
• persons suspected or wanted for a crime and warrants issued
• police promotion examination results and appointments
• prisoners discharged from gaols
• prisoners released on tickets of leave (under licence)
• probibited immigrants
• publicans’ licences
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, local and social historians are concerned,
they are valuable primary source documents.
This CD contains five years of New South Wales Police Gazettes from 1911 to
1915 all on the one CD, at a discounted price.
Each year issue is also available separately:
New
South Wales Police Gazette 1911
New
South Wales Police Gazette 1912
New
South Wales Police Gazette 1913
New
South Wales Police Gazette 1914
New
South Wales Police Gazette 1915
High quality scanned images of the whole of each years issues. This
CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
