Media: DATA CD - 2 CDs (7222 pages)
Year: (1883) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957031
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 1883 contains:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments to Public School Boards; lists of Pupil teachers who gained promotion
 - Deeds of Grants ready for delivery
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - errors in deeds
 - horse and cattle brands
 - insolvents
 - lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, arrears of interest on conditional purchases, pre-emptive leases; applicants for mining leases; unrenewed auction leases
 - licenses for auctioneers; brewers; colonial wine; publicans; billiard and bagatelle; packet; spirit merchants and more
 - licensed surveyors
 - magistrates appointed
 - medical practitioners, chemists and druggists
 - ministers of religion for the celebration of marriages
 - petitions and counter-petitions for/against Municipalities
 - proclamations
 - probate and letters of administration notices
 - schedule of roads applied for to be closed and alienated (and the applicants)
 - shareholders (mining companies)
 - tenders for public works
 - trustees for burial grounds, commons, a refuge in time of flood, parks, public recreation, churches and more
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

SAMPLE ENTRY:

It is hereby notified, for public information, that His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to approve of the appointment of the undermentioned gentlemen as Trustees of the land dedicated on the 22nd March, 1883, as site for Mechanics’ Institute at Menindie, being allotment No. 10, of section No. 16, area 2 roods, viz.:—
Messrs. Simon Mackenzie.
William Maiden.
Thomas Mitchell.
Henry Church.
Robert Scobie.
David Edwards.
William James Faust.

This CD set contains high quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. These have been bookmarked for easy navigation, and 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