Extract date: 20/04/2024
| Name | Sid Hawks Truck Parking Bay |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Rest Area |
| Place Id | 24529 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 10 October 2013 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -17° 00' S (Decimal degrees -17.0021) | |
| Longitude: 133° 26' E (Decimal degrees 133.43645) | |
| Locality / Suburb | |
| Birdum | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Roper Gulf Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Named after Sid Hawks who came to Australia in the 1930's and arrived in Darwin in 1949. During the war he had been in the Royal Australian Air Force and was demobilised as a Sergeant in 1946. When Sid applied to build a store at Top Springs, in the early 1950s, 10 acres was surrendered from Montejinnie Station. Sid and his then wife Thelma had been licensed hawkers in Queensland. They built and ran the Top Springs hotel and store. When the marriage broke-up in 1960, Sid moved to Darwin. He began a coastal shipping business and in 1972 married Thien, the daughter of the Raja of Thie, Timor. Sid and Thien had two children. He was involved in the evacuation of refugees from Timor after civil war broke out in 1975. Sid died in the Royal Darwin Hospital aged 97 in August 2004. |
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 10/10/2013 | Date added to the Register | |
| 23/10/2013 | NTG G43 |