Place Names Register Extract
Driver
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Driver |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Suburb |
| Place Id | 2028 |
| Place Type | Administrative Area |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 17 October 1984 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 29' S (Decimal degrees -12.4871) | |
| Longitude: 130° 58' E (Decimal degrees 130.9768) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| (None Found) | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Palmerston City Council | |
| History/Origin | This original Palmerston suburb is named after Mr Arthur Robert Driver, an engineer, who came from Western Australia and was appointed by the Federal Labour Government as Administrator in 1946. The highlights of his five (5) year term include the rescue in 1947 of Bas Wie upon his stowaway arrival in Darwin from Indonesia and his term as the first President of the Legislative Council which begun in 1948. By this time Driver had embarked on the decentralisation process of establishing Elliott as the focal point between Darwin and Alice Springs in the centre of the Territory. Driver was succeeded in 1951 by another Western Australian, Mr F J S Wise. Driver died in May of 1981. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 17/10/1984 | NTG G41 | |
| 05/12/2001 | NTG G48 | Revocation of 17/10/1984 gazettal and renaming of suburb due to changes to boundaries from originally gazetted |