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Line 39: Appointments, retirements and dismissals during the Brooke administration were also published in the Gazette. Positions and salary information were published as notices and orders. Public works, government departmental services, and community development (medicine, social, fraternal, welfare institutions) were also covered.{{r|Patrick1967|p=4,7}} [[Short-sea shipping|Coasting trade]], foreign trade, shipping, customs, government revenue and expenditures were also covered. [[State monopoly|Government monopolies]] such as opium, [[arrack]], gambling and pork farms were sold either by public auctions or [[First-price sealed-bid auction|sealed bids]]. Reports on pathological features, cultivation, and production of cash crops such as gambier, rubber, sago and pepper were also available. Experimental cultivation of tobacco, coffee, tea, pineapple were also available.{{r|Patrick1967|p=5}} Other literature available includes collection on forest produce prior to 1919, geology and mineral exploration on antimony, mercury, gold and oil production.{{r|Patrick1967|p=6}} Anthropological studies on Iban and other indigenous ethnic groups, migration of Chinese and Europeans in Sarawak were also well reported.{{r|Patrick1967|p=7}} Journals of Hugh Brooke Low (son of [[Hugh Low]]) appeared in 1882 to 1884 issues of Sarawak Gazette.{{r|Patrick1967|p=25}} Rajah also ordered the reprint of the entire book of Charles Grant in the Sarawak Gazette in 1885.{{r|Patrick1967|p=25}} The second Rajah of Sarawak did not censor the Sarawak Gazette but prefer to publish corrections in later issues. While the third Rajah of Sarawak appointed the chief secretary to censor the Gazette. During the [[Crown Colony of Sarawak]], censorship became a regular feature.{{r|Patrick1967|p=18}} There was also a restriction on the publication of adverse criticism on Brooke policy.{{r|Patrick1967|p=22,23}} | |||