Databases and Indexes

GFHG and GDHA members - GFHG Document B/LAN/15

Original index compiled by Jennifer and Daniel Wright for the GFHG, 6 November 1996

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

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• Index to Notice of Applications for Novel Industrial Enterprises under an Act of the Parliament of Victoria, No. 145, Section 47 - Victorian Government Gazette, 1862, Vol. 2

• Victoria Government Gazettes available at State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
  and various other locations
• Victoria Government Gazettes are also available on-line - use the Advanced Search by Page using the page number(s) included in this index

• NAME: Name of applicant
• COMMENT: County, Parish or Block, Government Gazette page number(s)
• REFERENCE: Government Gazette

• 143 entries

Introduction:

Following the passing of Act of Parliament of Victoria No. 145 known as 'The Land Act of 1862', an application form and lease form for Section 47 - Novel Industrial Leases were printed on pp. 1118-1119 of the 1862 Government Gazette.

These leases were mainly applied for by people in primary industry, especially for vineyards and orchards, and the details include the size and exact location of the property as well as the term of the lease and the type of land use, sometimes to the detail of varieties etc.

The occasional application wanted the land to use for a chemical industry.