Police Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for
local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout
Australia. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these
Gazettes therefore contain details and information that can not be found
anywhere else.
They include court lists, lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes
in the Police Service, lists of Justices of the Peace, lists of arrests and
discharges (which include descriptions), escaped prisoners, and missing persons.
Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.
Example entry taken from the 19 November 1913 issue:
Inquests
On the 17th instant, at Adelaide, on the body of Robert McCauley, aged 43
years, late of Payneham Road, laborer, who, on the 13th instant, was injured
through falling from a ladder whilst employed at a new building near
Victoria Square, Adelaide, and died in the Adelaide Hospital same date.
Verdict - "The deceased came to his death at the Adelaide Hospital on
November 13th, 1913, from shock caused by an accidental fall from a ladder
on the same date".
This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the year's
issues. It has been bookmarked for easy navigation. and pages can be searched,
browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
