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Directories are an immense source of historical information for local, family and social historians. Use them to find where a people lived and their occupations, not to mention about the times in which they lived. This Wise's Western Australian Post Office Directory is no different. With over 900 pages, there are 4 pages worth of contents (in three columns each), covering pretty much of what our current yellow and white pages do in the one volume.

Find out who were the local manufacturers for cement ware, or who were funeral directors, where the local hospitals were, who was the local night watchman. You will find doctors and judges, pig breeders and dairy merchants ... everything is covered in this volume

Divided into several sections, the Perth Street Directory lists each head of the household, house-by-house, street-by-street. There is a 'Suburbs' section which covers: Applecross, Bassendean, Canning Bridge, Gosnells, Karrakatta, Maddington, Nedlands, Oxborne Park, Queen's Park, Redcliffe, Scarborough, Victoria Park and Wattle Grove. These provide name, address and sometimes occupation.

The 'Country Directory' is similar, and lists towns alphabetically, together with residents and their address and occupation. The 'Alphabetical Directory' lists everyone alphabetically by surname who lived in Perth and Suburbs, Fremantle, Boulder and Kalgoorlie.

The 'Trades and Professional Directory' is arranged by trade, with each person listed with name and address. There are various other miscellaneous directories covering ecclesiastical, postal, government, societies and more.

A vast resource of information, now readily available in a useable form, this CD makes finding information in Western Australia in the 1940s easy.

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