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submitted by George Poulos on 08.12.2004

Frank Emmanuel Notaras. The naming of Notaras Lane. Gungahlin. Canberra.

Australian Capital Territory

Public Place Names 2002, No. 11 (Street Nomenclature –
Gungahlin)

Disallowable Instrument DI2002-171
made under the
Public Place Names Act 1989, section 3 (Minister to determine names)

I DETERMINE the names of the public places that are Territory Land as specified in
the attached schedule and as indicated on the attached plan.

Lincoln James Hawkins
Delegate of the Minister

Dated the 10th day of September 2002.

Authorised when accessed at www.legislation.act.gov.au or in authorised printed form


SCHEDULE
PUBLIC PLACE NAMES 2002, NO. 11 (Street Nomenclature - Gungahlin)

Division of Gungahlin: Australian Industrialists and Aspects of Industry,
Gungahlin Pioneers

NAME ORIGIN SIGNIFICANCE

Notaras Lane

Frank Emmanuel
Notaras


(1919-1994)

Restaurant Industry

Born on the Greek Island of Kythera in the village of Frilingianika. Frank Notaras migrated to Australia in 1937 and was soon to become one of Canberra’s Greek cafeteria ‘pioneers’. He was very active in the takeaway food and supermarket industries. He was a partner in the Liberty Café Manuka which has been renamed Caphs.

He served in the Australian Army for five years during World War II.

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