Pugh's Almanac & Queensland Directory Compendium 1866-1870

$35.90

Cat No.:   AU4115C-1866:

No of pages in original: 1838pp

Year published: (1866-70)

Directories and almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history.

Here can find out about the towns, the social lives and society in which people lived in this era, as well as the people themselves.

This compendium set contains five years of the Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory on a single CD, and covers the period 1866-1870.

An indication of the scope of Pughs can be seen from a representative table of contents for one year with information and directory listings where relevant.

• The CALENDAR

• Law Arrangements

• GARDENING CALENDAR

• Meteorological Observations

• Rainfall

• Royal Family of Great Britain

• GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

 - Executive and Legislative

 - Colonial Secretary's Department

 - Administration of Justice

 - Colonial Treasurer's Department

 - Lands and Works Department

 - Auditor General's Department

• Commission of the Peace

• Municipal Councils

• List of Barristers, &c

• Commissioners for Affidavits

• Physicians, Surgeons, and Chemists

• Ministers of Religion

• Banking Establishments

 - Public Societies

 - Literary Institutions

 - Newspapers

 - Masonic and other Lodges

 - Charitable Institutions

 - Building and Investment Societies

 - Public Companies

 - Military and Volunteers

 - Miscellaneous

 - Registration of Births, &e.

 - Electric Telegraph Regulations

• PORTS AND HARBOURS

 - Moreton Bay

 - Wide Bay

 - Sandy Cape to Cape Gloucester

 - Port Curtis

 - Keppel Bay

 - Broad Sound

 - Pioneer River

 - Port Denison

 - Port Albany, &c.

 - Torres Straits

• POSTAL INFORMATION - Arrival and Despatch of Mails

• List of Acts, &c.

• Pastoral Leases Act

• Agricultural Reserves Act

• Immigration Regulations

• Population Returns

• PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL

 - Return of Live Stock

 - Land under Cultivation

 - Table for Agriculturists

 - Sugar Cultivation

• TRADE RETURNS

 - Produce exported

 - Flour imported

 - Export of Cotton

 - Imports and Exports

 - Customs' Revenue

• COUNTRY DIRECTORY

 - Brisbane and Cleveland

 - Brisbane and Casino

 - Brisbane and Moggill

 - Brisbane and Marlborough

 - Brisbane and Ipswich

 - Ipswich and Drayton

 - Ipswich and Warwick

 - Toowoomba, Warwick, and Maryland

 - Toowoomba and Goondiwindi

 - Warwick and Leyburn

 - Toowoomba and Dalby

 - Toowoomba and Nanango

 - Dalby and Condamine 

 - Dalby and Goondiwindi

 - Dalby and Auburn

 - Condamine and Taroom

 - Condamine and Roma.

 - Roma and Maranoa

 - Condamine, Surat, and Yarrowa

 - The Warrego

 - Retreat and Nindigually

 - Ipswich and Gayndah

 - Gayndah and Taroom

 - Taroom and Roma

 - Gayndah and Walla.

 - Maryborough and Gayndah

 - Maryborough and Gladstone

 - Gladstone and Rockhampton

 - Taroom and Rockhampton

 - Banana and Gayndah

 - Rockhampton and Orion Downs

 - Rainsworth and Gordon Downs.

 - Springsure and Barcoo River

 - Marlborough and Peak Downs

 - Rockhampton and the Gold Fields

 - Rockhampton and Port Denison, &c.

• ADVERTISEMENTS

Pugh's Almanac & Queensland Directory is a valuable guide to the people, places and social history of Queensland at the time

Each year can also be purchased separately:

Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1866

Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1867

Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1868

Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1869

Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1870

No. of CDs is:  1 ;   Format is:  PDF ;   Searchable?:  YES;

FastFind:  Yes;  ISBN No.:   9781921416507;