This Day in History: 1880-04-01

Octavius Burt (formerly Chief Clerk in the Surveyor Generals’ Office) was appointed the seventh Toodyay Resident Magistrate, succeeding Robert Fairbairn, who was transferred to the Vasse.

Sources:
WA government gazette, 30 Mar. 1880, p.133.
West Australian, 2 April 1880, p.2.
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.269.