Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3379 pages)
Year: (1855) 2009
ISBN: 9781742225678
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

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.

They may include:

• Government institutions & positions
• Impoundments
• Insolvency & bankrupt notices
• Land transactions
• Legal notices
• Licences
• Mining contracts
• Partnerships
• Patent & trademark applications
• Private advertisements
• Proclamations
• Statistics

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 2 January 1855 issue):

Colonial Secretary's Office, Melbourne, 8th December, 1854.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
WHEREAS EDWARD RYDER effected his escape from the Main Depot, at Pentridge, on the morning of Sunday, the 3rd of December, disguised in female clothing: Notice is hereby given that a reward of Five Pounds will be paid to any person who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension of the said EDWARD RYDER.
By His Excellency's Command, J.13,556., JOHN FOSTER.

This CD contains 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

SAMPLE FILE
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book. Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.