Source Information
Ancestry.com. Australia, Commonwealth Public Service Lists, 1904, 1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.Original data:
Commonwealth Public Service List, 1904 ('Stud Book'). CD-ROM. Ridgehaven, South Australia: Gould Genealogy and History, 2007.
Commonwealth Public Service List, 1920. CD-ROM. Ridgehaven, South Australia: Gould Genealogy and History, 2007.
About Australia, Commonwealth Public Service Lists, 1904, 1920
This collection from Australia consists of more than 35,000 records of persons who were listed in the 1904 and 1920 publications List of Permanent Officers of the Commonwealth Public Service. For each person, the following information is provided:
- Name
- Date of birth
- Date of first appointment
- Office or position appointed to
- Division
- Class or grade
- Salary (including rent)
- Deductions for rent
- District allowance
- Miscellaneous allowance
- Date present salary was first received
Additional information from the 1920 List includes:
- Rates of annual salary assigned to certain positions
- Post office classifications
- Classification of telegraphists
- Special district allowances
- Comprehensive index to permanent commonwealth officers
