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Calls for community help to find closest relatives of prominent Bass Coast for road naming
Bass Coast Council joins 'Put Her Name On It' campaign to commemorate women in road naming, collaborating with Geographic Names Victoria.
Bass Coast Shire Council is committed to increasing the number of women represented in road naming within the municipality and are actively participating in the Put Her Name On It campaign aimed at commemorating women and their achievements. Developers of a new estate in McGibbony's/Benetti Road North Wonthaggi are creating new roads that are required to be named as part of the subdivision process. Several of the road names will honour local women.
Changing public spaces for gender equality in Victoria. GEN VIC and Geographic Names Victoria collaborate to enhance women's commemoration
Commemorating women
Put Her Name On It is a Victorian program designed to commemorate women in public spaces and to create gender equality through collaborative action. Council is working in collaboration with Geographic Names Victoria on this project and is seeking permission from close family members of women whose names were raised by the Wonthaggi Historical Society for their service to the community.
To comply with the naming rules, council must endeavour to obtain consent from the closest living family member for any proposed commemorative naming. We are now seeking comment from the closest living family member of the women's names supplied below by the Wonthaggi Historical Society:
- Dawn Turner
- Velia Treuel
- Grace Gent
- Doris Menzies
- Ruby Connelly
- Doreen Fincher
- Cecilia Sullivan
- Emily Seymour
- Valda Unthank
- Agnes Vurlow
- Meg Foster
- Meg Curry
- Minnie Gillespie
- Edith Nash
- Winifred Baker
- Filomena Nesci
- Violet Taberner
- Goldie Guthrie
- Agnes Doig
Contact reference information
We encourage the community to please assist in this important project by contacting council's Property Team via the form below with:
Which woman they are contacting us in reference and their relationship to this person
- First Name
- Last Name
- Phone Number (optional)
Who is the person you are contacting us in reference to?
- Dawn Turner
- Ruby Connelly
- Valda Unthank
- Meg Curry
- Filomena Nesci
- Velia Treuel
- Doreen Fincher
- Agnes Vurlow
- Minnie Gillespie
- Violet Taberner
- Grace Gent
- Cecilia Sullivan
- Agnes Doig
- Edith Nash
- Goldie Guthrie
- Doris Menzies
- Emily Seymour
- Meg Foster
- Winifred Baker
What was your relationship to this person?
Send a message
Alternatively, the Property Team can be contacted via:
- Email: basscoast@basscoast.vic.gov.au
- Phone: 1300 226 278,
- Postal Address: PO Box 118, Wonthaggi VIC 3995
The form can be shared via Bass Coast Shire Council website.
Pictures from Bass Coast Shire Council website.
Source: www.gippsland.com
Published by: news@gippsland.com
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