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Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinatingresource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughoutAustralia. They were published bythe Government asa means ofcommunication to officials and to the general public, and therefore includecertain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.
The Government Gazettes for a particular locality eventuallybecamestandarised with the typesof material and information included. The information contained in the years1891-1900 include:

• Appointees to Governmentpositions
• Appointments of Magistrates & Justices of the Peace
• Appointments of ReturningOfficers
• Crown Land Leases
• Deceased Estates
• Dissolution of businesspartnerships
• Government Acts &Proclamations
• Impoundments
• Insolvency & bankruptcy notices
• Legal notices
• Licences & contracts
• Lists of Officers, Medical Practitioners,Ministers of Religion etc
• Notices or rewards for lost or stolen property
• Partnerships
• Property owners subject tocompulsory land acquisition
• Trademark registrations
• Unclaimed property
• Unclaimed letters

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