Australian Capital Territory
Public Place Names (Gungahlin) Determination 2004 (No 4)

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Disallowable instrument DI2004-269
made under the 
Public Place Names Act 1989— section 3 (Minister to determine names)

I DETERMINE the name of the public place that is Territory Land as specified in the attached schedule and as indicated on the attached plan.

Neil Savery
Delegate of the Minister

10 December 2004

SCHEDULE 

Public Place Names (Gungahlin) Determination 2004  (No 4)
Division of Gungahlin: Gungahlin Pioneers, Industrialists and aspects of Industry
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Hinder Street	Eleanor Mary Hinder 
(1893-1963)	Industrial Welfare
Eleanor Hinder was born at Maitland, NSW, into a family of pioneer pastoralists and teachers; she was educated at West Maitland Girls' High School and Sydney University (B.Sc., 1914). 
A pioneer in the field of industrial welfare in Australia she was appointed Superintendent of Staff Welfare for the department store, Farmer & Co. Ltd, in Sydney during WWI and was later to achieve international prominence in this field.
From 1926 to 1928 Eleanor assisted in the development of the new industrial department of the National Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association of China, in Shanghai. She held the position of Chief of the Industrial and Social Division of Shanghai Municipal Council from January 1933 until August 1942, when the Japanese occupation of Shanghai forced her repatriation to Britain. 
Her next appointment, from December 1942 to October 1944, was to the International Labour Organisation in Montreal where she served as Special Consultant on Asian Questions.  She subsequently held several other positions with the United Nations. 
Outside of her professional life, Hinder was also involved with a number of women's organisations.