Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (5087 pages)
Year: (1877) 2010
ISBN: 9781742229508
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 1877 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments to Public School Boards
 - Deeds of Grant ready for delivery
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - errors in deeds
 - horse and cattle brands
 - insolvents
 - land for sale; crown land set aside for public purposes
 - lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, pre-emptive leases
 - licences – including auctioneers; billiard and bagatelle; timber; packet; publicans; wine, cider and perry licences
 - licensed surveyors
 - 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:

DISEASES IN SHEEP ACT OF 1866.
NOTICE is hereby given for public information, that the undermentioned gentlemen have been elected Sheep Directors for the respective Sheep Districts hereinafter mentioned, namely:—

ALBURY.
Samuel Watson, Esquire, Gerogery.
Frederick G. Manning, Esquire, Tarcutta.
Thomas Mitchell, Esquire, Woomargama.
William J. Lyne, Esquire, Bowna.
James Day, Esquire, Daysdale.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. These have 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