Description

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (267 pages)
Year: (1918) 2009
ISBN: 9781742224480
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE.

"CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to:

faulty label printing, e.g. off colour or misaligned. A few have been manually labelled or corrected
over-produced initially, so offered as "spares" to clear

They are all offered at 60% to 90% discount (from the normal price). They will be supplied in clear CD sleeves, rather than the normal CD cases. In many cases they are the last available, i.e. they won't be available, even at full price, when sold out.

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Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes (in the earliest years called Reports of Crime) to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes personal details, descriptions with photograph, addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the researcher:

apprehensions
convict returns
disciplining of police
escapees and absconders from custody
housebreakers and burglars
licensed carriers, hawkers, oyster fishers, and tanners
deserting wives, families, etc
deserting from military service
deserting from merchant vessels
inquests
missing friends
murderers and their victims
police resignations
prisoners discharged from gaols and released on tickets of leave
property and stock recovered
rewards - names of persons offering a reward
victims of arson
victims of horse and cattle stealing or straying
victims of lost or stolen property
victims of sheep stealing or straying

SAMPLE ENTRIES taken from the 12 April 1918 issue:

Deserters from H.M. Service
William Royal Fisher, Stoker, 2nd Class, native of Richmond, Victoria, age 20, height 5 feet 6 inches, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair, brown eyes.

Inquests of Bodies
Hobart - Louisa Grace Bowerman, aged one year and five months. An inquest was commenced on the body of the abovenamed infant on the 29th ultimo, adjourned to the 2nd instant, and concluded on the 4th instant, before H.S.R. Wright, Esq., Coroner. Verdict: "Died from shock caused by burns"

The Police Gazettes are a fascinating read even if you don't have family there at the time. Reading the entries gives you a little feel of the happenings and life in 1918 Tasmania.

High quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. This CD has 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

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