Blue Book, Victoria, Australia, 1905 – Police Magistrates and Wardens of the Gold Fields

Columns:	R [Role]; D is whether the role is Resident [R] or Visiting [V].
	PM (Police Magistrate), GC (Gold Commissioner 1851-1855), GW (Gold Warden 1855-1929), CCL (Commissioner of Crown Lands), and CP (Chinese Protector) show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time.

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number in the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Police Magistrates (also Wardens of the Gold Fields, Coroners)

BB	Name	Title	Original	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	Comments	Next
V1905	Beaven, James William Waight	Police Magistrate	1903-02-06	R	1903-02-06	1903-02-06	Ongoing	Wangaratta	11
V1905	Burrowes, Robert James	Police Magistrate	1898-08-15	R	1903-02	1903-02	Ongoing	Stawell	12
V1905	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Coroner	1902-02-20	R	1902-02-20	1902-02-20	Ongoing	County Coroner		Also Caulfield.
V1905	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Police Magistrate	1902-02-20	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Caulfield	4	Also County Coroner.
V1905	Cresswell, Charles Alfred Costley	Police Magistrate	1893-04-24	R	1893-07-03	1893-07-03	Ongoing	Sale	17
V1905	Dickson, William	Police Magistrate	1899-02-06	R	1902	1902	Ongoing	Ballarat	14
V1905	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate	1892-07-25	R	1902-08	1902-08	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1905	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Castlemaine	16
V1905	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1895	1895	Ongoing	Inglewood	13
V1905	Holmes, Charles George	Police Magistrate	1891-05-19	R	1891-09-21	1891-09-21	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	9
V1905	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1894	1894	Ongoing	Suburban
V1905	Leader, William	Police Magistrate	1891-10-24	R	1897	1897	Ongoing	Maryborough	14
V1905	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	R	1902-08-08	1902-08-08	Ongoing	Bendigo	9
V1905	Morrison, Harold	Police Magistrate	1897-10-04	R	1897-10-04	1897-10-04	1905	Kilmore	15		Geelong.
V1905	Morrison, Harold	Police Magistrate	1897-10-04	R	1905	1905	Ongoing	Geelong	13	Patterson (resigned).
V1905	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1903-02	1903-02	1905	Hamilton	15		Kilmore.
V1905	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1905	1905	Ongoing	Kilmore	15	H Morrison.
V1905	Murphy, Henry Morgan	Police Magistrate	1904	R	1904	1904	Ongoing	Relieving Magistrates
V1905	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Metropolitan
V1905	Patterson, George William Frederick	Police Magistrate	1888-08-27	R	1892-07	1892-07	1905	Geelong	13		Left during 1905.
V1905	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate		R	1893	1893	Ongoing	Beechworth	10
V1905	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1895-10	1895-10	Ongoing	Malvern	21
V1905	Williams, Edgar Elmore	Police Magistrate	1905-06-27	R	1905-06-27	1905-06-27	Ongoing	Hamilton	15	G R Murphy.
V1905	(Vacant)			R	1905	1905	Ongoing	Warrnambool	7
V1905	(Vacant)					1905-01-01	1905-12-31	Benalla	10
V1905	(Vacant)					1905-01-01	1905-12-31	Dandenong
V1905	(Vacant)					1905-01-01	1905-12-31	Seymour
V1905	(Vacant)					1905-01-01	1905-12-31	St Arnaud

References

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons employed under the Public Service Acts, Victoria, on the 31st December, 1905; Fifth Supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette, No 14, 31 January 1906; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1906; p 725 (49).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1905.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1905; Government Printer, Melbourne, 11 October 1904.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1906; Government Printer, Melbourne, 10 October 1905.

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