Australian Capital Territory
Public Place Names 2002, No. 13 (Street Nomenclature – Macgregor)
Disallowable Instrument DI2002-177
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.

Lincoln James Hawkins
Delegate of the Minister

Dated the 3rd day of October 2002.

SCHEDULE

STREET NOMENCLATURE

Public Place Names 2002, No. 13 (Street Nomenclature – Macgregor)

Division of Macgregor

NAME

Chalmers Place
	ORIGIN

Reverend James Chalmers 
(1841-1901)
	SIGNIFICANCE

Missionary and Explorer.
James Chalmers was born in 1841 in the town of Ardishaig, Scotland.  James studied theology at Cheshunt College from 1859 and was ordained in 1865.  With his new wife, James took up his first missionary appointment in Rarotonga arriving in 1867.  The natives named him ‘Tamate’.  He was known by this name until his death.
The Rarotonga Christian mission was well established. He reorganised an existing Training Institution and set about educating native children.
James encouraged self-government and independence of European influence once a native work was well established. He wrote: "So long as the native churches have foreign pastors, so long will they remain weak and dependent.”
In 1877 James was assigned to New Guinea which was, at the time, a largely unexplored island. Besides introducing the gospel, James accomplished the seemingly impossible goal of promoting peace among the tribes all along the coast. 
In November 1884 New Guinea was formally annexed as a territory of Great Britain. James was enormously successful in smoothing over native resistance to the Protectorate. 
James was brutally murdered during a missionary trip to Goaribari Island in April 1901.  The news of his murder made headlines all over the world. 	
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Delegate's Initials

This is Page One of One of the Schedule to the Instrument signed by the Delegate of the Minister on the 3rd day of October 2002.