Blue Book, Victoria, Australia, 1917 – 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
V1917	Bartold, Paul Wilhelm Carl Heinrich	Police Magistrate	1911-04-13	R	1915	1915	Ongoing	Castlemaine	13
V1917	Beaven, James William Waight	Police Magistrate	1903-02-06	R	1916	1916	1917	Bendigo	9		Left during 1917.
V1917	Berriman, Daniel	Police Magistrate	1910-11-08	R	1910-11-08	1910-11-08	1917	Maryborough	12		Bendigo.
V1917	Berriman, Daniel	Police Magistrate	1910-11-08	R	1917	1917	Ongoing	Bendigo	9	Beaven.
V1917	Cohen, Philip	Police Magistrate	1906	R	1909-11	1909-11	Ongoing	Malvern	16
V1917	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Coroner	1902-02-20	R	1908	1908	Ongoing	City Coroner
V1917	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate	1892-07-25	R	1902-08	1902-08	1917	Melbourne			Left during 1917.
V1917	Elliget, Patrick Harold Vincent	Police Magistrate	1915	R	1916	1916	1917	Charlton	14		Maryborough.
V1917	Elliget, Patrick Harold Vincent	Police Magistrate	1915	R	1917	1917	Ongoing	Maryborough	9	Berriman.
V1917	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	R	1914-06	1914-06	1917	Melbourne		Also Suburban.	Left during 1917.
V1917	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	V	1914-06	1914-06	1917	Suburban		Also Melbourne.	Left during 1917.
V1917	Grey, Charles James	Police Magistrate	1913	R	1913	1913	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	12
V1917	Harrison, Edward	Police Magistrate	1906-07	R	1906-07	1906-07	Ongoing	Stawell	16
V1917	Harris, Walter William	Police Magistrate	1907-07-16	R	1916	1916	Ongoing	Ballarat	18
V1917	Kelley, Alfred Aldridge	Police Magistrate	1910-06-14	R	1916	1916	Ongoing	Geelong	13
V1917	Knight, Richard	Police Magistrate	1908-01-01	R	1916	1916	Ongoing	Essendon	20
V1917	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	R	1916	1916	1917	Brunswick	11		Melbourne.
V1917	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	R	1917	1917	Ongoing	Melbourne		Dwyer. Also Suburban.
V1917	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	V	1917	1917	Ongoing	Suburban		Dwyer. Also Melbourne.
V1917	Pennefather, John Francis	Police Magistrate	1912-09-24	R	1916	1916	Ongoing	Wangaratta	16
V1917	Rogers, Charles John	Police Magistrate	1917	R	1917	1917	Ongoing	Inglewood	12
V1917	Smith, William George	Police Magistrate	1912-07-02	R	1915	1915	Ongoing	Hamilton	13
V1917	Tanner, Vivian	Police Magistrate	1909-11-10	R	1916	1916	Ongoing	Dandenong	21
V1917	(Vacant)					1915	1917	Sale
V1917	(Vacant)					1917-01-01	1917-12-31	Benalla	10
V1917	(Vacant)					1917-01-01	1917-12-31	Beechworth	10
V1917	(Vacant)					1917-01-01	1917-12-31	Brunswick
V1917	(Vacant)					1917-01-01	1917-12-31	Relieving Magistrates

References

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons Permanently Employed under the Public Service Acts, Victoria, on the 31st December, 1917; Victoria Government Gazette, No 18, 31 January 1918; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1918; pp 566-567 (70-71).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1917.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1917; Government Printer, Melbourne, 10 October 1916.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1918; Government Printer, Melbourne, 9 October 1917.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1918 [Revised]; Government Printer, Melbourne, 4 December 1917.
	Supplementary Estimates, 1917-1918; Government Printer, Melbourne, 8 August 1918.

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