Identity area
Reference code
AU WA S4874
Title
PRESS CLIPPINGS
Date(s)
- 1899-01-01 - 1916-12-31 (Accumulation)
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Volumes
Status
Final
Context area
Name of creator
AU WA A278 - REGISTRY DEPARTMENT
(1881-01-01 - 1896-01-01)
Administrative history
The Registry Department was responsible for the registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages within the Swan River Colony.
The Department was also responsible for the collection and reporting of statistical information. (A Government Statistician was first appointed in February 1896 in the succeeding Registrar General's Department).
Name of creator
AU WA A279 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT
(1896-01-01 - 1901-01-01)
Administrative history
The 1894 Act repealed the 1841 Act to register births, deaths and marriages and allowed for the establishment of District Registrars each with a defined district. From 1906 births, deaths and marriages are recorded by district and number. With the establishment of the Commonwealth combined with the Government Statisticians Office until 1957.
Name of creator
AU WA A280 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN'S DEPARTMENT
(1901-01-01 - 1957-06-30)
Administrative history
Previously the Registrar General's Department, it combined with the Government Statisticians Office upon federation in 1901. The Department remained as such, and responsible to the Colonial Secretary's Office and its successor, the Chief Secretary's Department until 1957 when the two functions were split. The Registrar General's office was created to operate as a Division of the Chief Secretary's Department and its successors.
Repository
Archival history
Consignment 7582 was acquired from the State Library of WA as part of the Separation of Collection project 2016.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series consists of bound volumes containing newspaper cuttings maintained by staff of the Government Statistician.
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Open
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