Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3715 pages)
Year: (1873) 2010
ISBN: 9781742229423
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.

The New South Wales Government Gazette of 1873 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments to Public School Boards
 - Deeds of Grants ready for delivery
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - errors in deeds
 - horse and cattle brands
 - insolvents
 - land for sale; crown land set aside for religious purposes
 - lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, pre-emptive leases
 - licenses for auctioneers, timber, and publicans, and notices for other licensing meetings
 - licensed surveyors
 - magistrates appointed
 - medical practitioners
 - ministers of religion
 - petitions and counter-petitions
 - proclamations
 - Post Office mail contractors
 - probate and letters of administration notices
 - rents not paid and leases lapsed
 - schedule of roads applied for to be closed and alienated (and the applicants)
 - shareholders
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

MURRAY RIVER CUSTOMS
NOTICE is hereby given, that Howlong, on the River Murray, has been appointed a Port of Entry; and that, on and after the 6th day of January next, Customs Duties will be levied at that place on all goods which, being subject to duty under the New South Wales Tariff, shall be imported across or by way of the River Murray from, Victoria and South Australia.
W. A. DUNCAN,
Collector of Customs.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole years worth of 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