A gazette is an official journal , a newspaper of record , or simply a newspaper .
15-596: Mungar is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , Mungar had a population of 328 people. Mungar is 256 kilometres (159 mi) north of the state capital Brisbane and 19.7 kilometres (12.2 mi) south west of the regional centre of Maryborough . The locality is bounded to the east by the Mary River . Mungar Road traverses the locality from north to south. The North Coast railway line enters
30-636: A government gazette . For some governments, publishing information in a gazette was or is a legal necessity by which official documents come into force and enter the public domain . Such is the case for documents published in Royal Thai Government Gazette (est. 1858), and in The Gazette of India (est. 1950). The government of the United Kingdom requires government gazettes of its member countries. Publication of
45-466: A gazette"; especially where gazette refers to a public journal or a newspaper of record. For example, " Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded to National Park status in 1968." British Army personnel decorations, promotions, and officer commissions are gazetted in the London Gazette , the "Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom". Gazettal (a noun)
60-534: A smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996
75-493: Is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie LGAs; and Woodville , which is split between the City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council LGAs. In unincorporated areas , localities are declared by the relevant state authority. Gazette In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear
90-835: The Edinburgh Gazette , the official government newspaper in Scotland, began in 1699. The Dublin Gazette of Ireland followed in 1705, but ceased when the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922; the Iris Oifigiúil (Irish: Official Gazette ) replaced it. The Belfast Gazette of Northern Ireland published its first issue in 1921. Chiefly in British English, the transitive verb to gazette means "to announce or publish in
105-1149: The Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been a process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
120-407: The British penny dreadful and the American dime novel .) This loanword, with its various corruptions , persists in numerous modern languages ( Slavic languages , Turkic languages ). In England , with the 1700 founding of The Oxford Gazette (which became the London Gazette ), the word gazette came to indicate a public journal of the government; today, such a journal is sometimes called
135-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
150-458: The locality from the south ( Antigua ) and exits to the north ( Grahams Creek ). It is west of Mungar Road. The locality is served by the Mungar railway station ( 25°36′12″S 152°35′38″E / 25.6033°S 152.5940°E / -25.6033; 152.5940 ( Mungar railway station ) ). Mary River Saw Mill Provisional School opened on 9 July 1875. On 24 September 1877, it
165-519: The name The Gazette . Gazette is a loanword from the French language, which is, in turn, a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazzetta , which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazzetta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazzetta. (Compare with other vernacularisms from publishing lingo, such as
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#1732801487358180-530: The north-east. Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means
195-524: The school had an enrolment of 44 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 52 students with 4 teachers (3 full-time equivalent) and 6 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Mungar. The nearest government secondary school is Aldridge State High School in Maryborough to
210-498: Was officially closed in 2012. At the 2011 census , Mungar and the surrounding area had a population of 264. In the 2016 census , Mungar had a population of 309 people. In the 2021 census , Mungar had a population of 328 people. Mungar State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 1143 Mungar Road ( 25°36′15″S 152°35′26″E / 25.6041°S 152.5906°E / -25.6041; 152.5906 ( Mungar State School ) ). In 2017,
225-518: Was renamed Mungar State School. The Mungar Junction to Monto Branch Railway branched from the North Coast railway line at Mungar railway station. The first section of the line from Mungar to Teebar (now known as Brooweena ) opened on 29 July 1889. The final opening of the line through to its terminus in Monto was on 15 September 1928. The last train ran on the branch railway in 2008 and the line
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