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Bax Road
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| Name |
Bax |
| Type Designation |
Road |
| Place Id |
24940 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Historical |
| Date Registered |
25 May 2018 |
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Humpty Doo |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Litchfield Council |
| History/Origin |
Oliver William Bax (known as Billy), was born in 1895. During the 1930s he was a jockey and won the Darwin Cup (as detailed in Pearl Ogden's publication "Horse Racing in the North"). Billy first came to Tennant Creek in 1934 with his wife and family, where he took up the Aurora lease on the Honeymoon Range; later working at Weabers Rising Sun Mine. In later years he moved to Katherine and stayed involved in horse racing. He died in Katherine in March 1967. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 25/05/2018 |
|
Date added to the Register ( Certified Plan S2018/024) - DUPLICATED RECORD (BAX ROAD - See Place Id. 24779) |
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