Australian Capital Territory
Public Place Names (City) Determination 2004 (No 1)

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Disallowable Instrument DI2004-87
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
2 June 2004

SCHEDULE 

Public Place Names (City) Determination 2004 (No 1)
Division of City: Aboriginal words, pioneers and capital cities. 
NAME	ORIGIN	SIGNIFICANCE	
Genge Street
	Reginald Robert Genge 
(1902-1988)	Canberra Pioneer
Reginald (Reg) Genge was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands and came to live in Sydney, Australia in 1923.  His fiancée, Marie Louise Duquemin, arrived thereafter and they were married in 1924.
In 1925, Reg and Marie moved to Singleton, NSW where Reg worked as a mechanic.  From there they moved to Queanbeyan, NSW, in 1927, where Reg operated a branch agency for Austin cars, a mechanical workshop and petrol pump.
In 1929, Reg also started to run a motor mechanic workshop in Mort Street, Canberra. After purchasing a block of land in Mort Street (No. 24) in 1935, Reg built his own garage, workshop, showroom and residence. Genge’s Garage was the Austin agency for the district and also sold Hudson, Armstrong, Siddeley and Rover cars and motorcycles.
In 1946, Reg bought the adjacent Mort Street block to expand his showroom and workshop space.
In the 1950s, Reg purchased No. 7 Lonsdale Street and later built what was then called Genge Building.
After selling the Mort Street properties in c1963 he opened R&J Motor Services in the Genge Building.  The business sold and serviced Suzuki, Triumph and Norton motorcycles.  The property sold in 1987 about a year before his death.
Reg & Marie raised three children: Reginald George, John Robert and Marie Louise.
Reg’s interests included a great love of motorcycles stemming from his purchase, at the age of 15, of a 1910 model Quadrant motorcycle; flying – he learnt to fly at the Canberra Aero Club; lawn bowls and Rotary.