NATIONAL MEMORIALS ORDINANCE 1928

 

SUBSECTION 8A (1)

 

NAMING OF KENDREW STREET AND ALLARDYCE STREET, BARTON

 

I, Jamie Edward Briggs, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development pursuant to subsection 8A(1) of the National Memorials Ordinance 1928, hereby:

  1. determine the name of the dotted area as shown on the attached Plan 1 and currently identified as part Block 13 Section 9, Barton, ACT, to be:

Allardyce Street,

2.       determine the name of the hatched area as shown on the attached Plan 1 and currently identified part Block 13 Section 9, Barton, ACT, to be:

Kendrew Street,

the origin and significance of the names being described in attached schedule.

 

The naming comes into operation upon the date of publication of this notice in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Section 8B of the National Memorials Ordinance 1928 provides that if notice in writing objecting wholly or in part to the determination is lodged with the Minister within twenty one days of the date of publication of this notice in the Gazette, the Minister shall forthwith refer the determination or the part of the determination objected to, to the Canberra National Memorials Committee for a determination by the Committee.

 

 

 

Dated this 8th day of August 2014.

 

 

 

Hon Jamie Briggs MP

Assistant Minister for Infrastructure

and Regional Development

 

SCHEDULE

NAME

ORIGIN

SIGNIFICANCE

ALLARDYCE STREET

Sir William Lamond ALLARDYCE GCMG (1861-1930) Governor of Tasmania 1920-22

Sir William Lamond Allardyce GCMG (1861-1930) was a highly regarded member of the British Civil Service in the Colonial Office. Sir Allardyce served as Governor of Tasmania from 1920 to 1922.

He was known as an efficient, tough-minded administrator and was rewarded with quick promotion and high level postings during a period of prosperity for the British Empire. He was known as an early conservationist and worked to regulate the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands.

 

He was Governor of many British colonies including Fiji (1901-1902), the Falkland Islands (1904-1914), Bahamas (1914-1920) and Newfoundland (1922-1928).

 

 

 

KENDREW STREET

Major-General Sir Douglas KENDREW KCMG CB CBE DSO*** (1910-1989) Governor of Western Australia 1963-73

Sir Douglas Kendrew KCMG CB CBE DSO*** was a former Governor of Western Australia from 1963 to 1974 and like many Governors in the history of the office in Western Australia, he also came from a military background. He was a very popular Western Australian Governor with his term extended twice.

Kendrew was one of the few officers who have been awarded the Distinguished Service Order four times. During the 1950s, Sir Douglas was the Commander of the British Brigade, Commonwealth Division in Korea, and General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations in Cyprus. He was the Director of Information at the War Office in London from 1959 to 1960 and then Chief Defence Liaison Officer at the British High Commission in Canberra from 1961 to 1963.

 

 

 

 

A map showing the extent of the newly determined streets in Barton, ACT. Allardyce Street runs between Macquarie and Blackall Streets north of Kendrew Street which runs between the same two streets. Coordinates for the spatial extent of each newly determined street are also shown.