AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

PUBLIC PLACE NAMES ACT 1989

NO.  312 OF  2001

Pursuant to section 4 of the Public Place Names Act 1989, I determine the names of the public places that are Territory Land as specified in the attached Schedule and as indicated on the attached map.

Dated the 18th day of September 2001.

								LINCOLN JAMES HAWKINS
								Delegate of the Minister

SCHEDULE

STREET NOMENCLATURE

Division of Gordon:  Sportsmen and Sportswomen

NAME

	ORIGIN
	SIGNIFICANCE
	
Batt Place	Batt Brothers, 
William Percy (1879-1947) and 
Harry Cyril Leslie (1885-1947)
	Yachtsmen and 
boat builders.	
Rollins Place	Edward Rollins (1852-1928)	Boxer, arrived in Australia from British Guiana in 1881; became a professional boxer, under the name of 'Starlight', in 1886; fought in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne; spent four years (1896-1900) in England, where he won the European Middleweight Championship; returned to Australia, where he taught boxing.
	
McGilvray Close	Alan David McGilvray 
(1909-1996)	Cricket broadcaster; played cricket at first-class level; captained NSW 13 times between 1935 and 1938 before retiring to take up a full-time broadcasting position with the ABC; honoured with an MBE for his services to sport in 1974 and AM in 1980; his book 'The Game Is Not The Same' was published in 1987.

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SCHEDULE 

STREET NOMENCLATURE

Division of Gordon:  Sportsmen and Sportswomen

NAME

	ORIGIN
	SIGNIFICANCE
	
Oxenham Circuit	Ronald Oxenham (1891-1939)	Cricketer; in his late thirties and early forties, he appeared in Tests against England, the West Indies and South Africa; played in 46 Sheffield Shield matches; in his First-class career (1911‑36) he scored 3,693 runs and took 369 wickets; in his seven Test matches he scored 151 runs and took 14 wickets.
	
Scully Street	Thomas Scully (1854-1924)	Race horse trainer; born in Canada, he arrived in Australia as an infant; first became involved with racing at Coolah, NSW; won 12 Picnic Cup races with 'Loch Leven'; moved to Sydney in 1902 and won the Metropolitan and Caulfield Cups with 'Marvel Loch', the Market Handicap, Melbourne Stakes, Craven Plate and Villiers Stakes with 'Cetigne', and the Breeders' Plate with 'Scully'.	

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SCHEDULE 

STREET NOMENCLATURE

Division of Gordon:  Sportsmen and Sportswomen

Charles Place	Richard Stanley Charles 
(1901-1974)	Born in England, he travelled to Tasmania with his family in 1913. He founded the St George Motor Boat Club in 1927 and in 1937 he became interested in spear fishing. In 1948 he founded the `Speargun Fishing Association' and was its President from 1948-53.	

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