STREETS OF CANBERRA.
SYSTEM OF NAMING. HONOUR TO GREAT MEN. i Canberra is no longer a city of many 1 nameless streets and suburbs. The Na- : tional Memorials Committee, which was 3 ' given the task of finding suitable names 'for all the suburbs and thoroughfares in 1 the Federal capital, has completed its 1 work and henceforth Canberra's nomen--5 clature will be as complete an index to t Australian history as it would' be posi sible to find. 3 Governors, statesmen, explorers, navigators, pioneers, scientists, poets, educationists and great public benefactors " are all commemorated, the names of men 1 in the different classes being grouped 3 together in separate districts. Suburbs f have been named after the following statesmen, who were directly associated * with the establishment of Federation:— Barton, Braddon, Deakin, Dickson, For- : rest, Fysh, Griffith, Kingston, Lyne, j O'Connor, Parkes, Reid, Symon and Turner. For. other suburbs names associated * with Canberra since the earliest days * have bee.a retained. They are:-—Actonj ' Ainslie, Duntroon, Mugga," Narrabundah 5 and Yarralumla. In tho governmental area eleven of the 3 names of the most prominent statesmen ' connected with the establishment of Federation have been used for the streets 1 in the vicinity of Parliament House. The * central place in front of Parliament ' House has been given to the father of Federation—Sir Henry Parkes. 1 Over tfO pro-Federation Governors and \ every ex-Governor-General has been com- ! memorattd and tho memory of Bishop ' Broughtcn, the first Bishop of Australia, is perpetuated in the name of the street ' facing tho site of the Anglican Cathe- ! dral. Fifty-nine streets bear the names of great explorers and navigators, nine ' those of botanists and foresters,' 13 those of poets, .scientists and educationists and 39 those of pioneers from all the States. Famous battles in the Great War are 1 remembered by 13 street names. General Bridges, General Holmes and Sir -Ross Smith are specially singled out for honour. Many other streets have been given either euphonious aboriginal names or those of well-known native plants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19833, 31 December 1927, Page 10
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