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WODEN VALLEY
HIGHWAY'S
OFFICIAL NAME
YARRA GLEN
The parkway through the Woden
Valley has been formally named Yarra
Glen - with no suffix such as street,
highway, drive or avenue.
The road has been
named after Yarra Glen
home stead originally
owned by the Campbell
family, early settlers in
the area.
The usual suffixes were
dropped because it was
thought the name sounded
better alone, a spokesman
for the Department of the
Interior said last night.
The highway eventually
will extend from Adelaide
iAvenue. to the farthest
southern suburbs of the
Woden development, a
major part of Canberra's
road system.
The first section of the
expressway is under con
struction at the Adelaide
Avenue end.
The new name was offi
cially given in the Com
monwealth Gazette yester
day.
Oilier
names
Other names gazetted yes
terday included street names
for Woden Valley suburbs,
most of which are already
in existence and already
have name signs erected on
them.
The lists show that
streets in Mawson arc
named after people with a
connection with Antarctica:
in Garran the streets arc
named after writers, poets
and dramatists.
In Lyons, named for the
former Prime Minister. Mr
J. A. Lyons, who came from
Tasmania, the street names
are Tasmanian place names.
In the suburb of Chiflcy,
named after former Prime
Minister, Mr Ben Chiflcy.
who was closely associated
with establishment of the
Australian National Uni
versity, the streets are
named after people connec
ted with Australian univer
sities.
South Australian adminis
trators and pioneers have
given their names to streets
in Torrcns, which is named
for Sir Robert Torrens. a
Premier of SA in the 1850s.
The names of public ser
vants and other men who
worked with Sir George
Pearcc. a senator and Fed
eral Minister earlier this
century, are used in Pearce
isurhiirb.
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