Blue Book, Victoria, Australia, 1907 – 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
V1907	Barlow, Arthur	Police Magistrate	1907-09-24	R	1907-09-24	1907-09-24	Ongoing	Maryborough	14	Leader (deceased).
V1907	Beaven, James William Waight	Police Magistrate	1903-02-06	R	1903-02-06	1903-02-06	Ongoing	Wangaratta	11
V1907	Cohen, Philip	Police Magistrate	1906	R	1906	1906	Ongoing	Relieving Magistrates
V1907	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Coroner	1902-02-20	R	1902-02-20	1902-02-20	Ongoing	County Coroner		Also Caulfield.
V1907	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Police Magistrate	1902-02-20	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Caulfield	4	Also County Coroner.
V1907	Cresswell, Charles Alfred Costley	Police Magistrate	1893-04-24	R	1893-07-03	1893-07-03	1907-06-30	Sale	18		Melbourne.
V1907	Cresswell, Charles Alfred Costley	Police Magistrate	1893-04-24	R	1907-07-16	1907-07-01	Ongoing	Melbourne		Panton (retired).
V1907	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate	1892-07-25	R	1902-08	1902-08	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1907	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Castlemaine	15
V1907	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1895	1895	Ongoing	Inglewood	13
V1907	Harrison, Edward	Police Magistrate	1906-07	R	1906-07	1906-07	Ongoing	Stawell	13
V1907	Harris, Walter William	Police Magistrate	1907-07-01	R	1907-07-16	1907-07-01	Ongoing	Sale	18	Cresswell.
V1907	Holmes, Charles George	Police Magistrate	1891-05-19	R	1891-09-21	1891-09-21	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	9
V1907	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1894	1894	Ongoing	Suburban
V1907	Leader, William	Police Magistrate	1891-10-24	R	1897	1897	1907-09-14	Maryborough	14		Died.
V1907	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	R	1902-08-08	1902-08-08	Ongoing	Bendigo	9
V1907	Morrison, Harold	Police Magistrate	1897-10-04	R	1905	1905	Ongoing	Geelong	13
V1907	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1905	1905	1907	Kilmore	15		Seymour.
V1907	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1907	1907	1907-12-31	Seymour	15		Malvern.
V1907	Murphy, Henry Morgan	Police Magistrate	1904	R	1906	1906	Ongoing	Ballarat	14
V1907	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	1807-06	Metropolitan			Retired.
V1907	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate		R	1893	1893	Ongoing	Beechworth	10
V1907	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1895-10	1895-10	1907-12-31	Malvern	21		Retired.
V1907	Williams, Edgar Elmore	Police Magistrate	1905-06-27	R	1905-06-27	1905-06-27	Ongoing	Hamilton	14	Also Warrnambool.
V1907	Williams, Edgar Elmore	Police Magistrate	1905-06-27	R	1906	1906	Ongoing	Warrnambool		Also Hamilton.
V1907	(Vacant)					1907-01-01	1907-12-31	Benalla	10
V1907	(Vacant)					1907-01-01	1907-12-31	Dandenong
V1907	(Vacant)					1907-01-01	1907-12-31	St Arnaud

References

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons employed under the Public Service Acts, Victoria, on the 31st December, 1907; Victoria Government Gazette, No 15, 31 January 1908; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1908; p 795 (53).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1907.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1907; Government Printer, Melbourne, 11 September 1906.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1908; Government Printer, Melbourne, 3 October 1907.
	Supplementary Estimates, 1907-1908; Government Printer, Melbourne, 23 July 1908.

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