Some Years Ago, When a Well-Known Explorer Named a Number of Places After Personal Friends, the Register Entered a Good-Humoured Protest
D Some years ago, when a well-known explorer named a number of places after personal friends, the Register entered a good-humoured protest. When a township bearing a most musical native name was rechristened Hopetoun, the Register quietly sent it to Coventry by persisting in printing its original title… (Register, 25 July 1900, page 7d) Da Costa Park - A 1923 subdivision of part section 214, Hundred of Noarlunga, by the Church of England Collegiate School of St Peter; now included in Glenelg East and named after Benjamin M. Da Costa, a Portuguese Jew and owner of considerable property in South Australia. He bequeathed a life interest in it to various relatives on the termination of which ‘a handsome legacy was bequeathed to St Peter’s College … [he] was formerly engaged in mercantile pursuits in Grenfell Street and left the colony in 1848 for England where he has since resided…’ Dairy Flat - A descriptive name given to land in the Bald Hill district. A reporter said in 1851 that he ‘came to Dairy Flat, on the border of the Yankalilla River, formerly a dairy farm and the establishment of Mr J.B. Hack, more recently of Mr Field, but now abandoned, as to the original purpose and occupied by the blacksmith we were now seeking.’ Records in the Department of Education show the Dairy Flat School opening in 1863 - changed to ‘Torrens Vale’ in 1908 and closed in 1954. However, a newspaper report says that on 6 December 1858 the pupils of Mr C. Lee underwent a public examination when the prize-winners were listed as: Jane Nosworthy, John Bartram, Thomas Willson, Henry Bartram, Nicholas Nicholas, John Coad, Emma Ward, Jane Coad, Jane Gardner, Richard Denniss, David Deakin Davies, Margaret Gardner, Elizabeth Ann Blacker, Lucy Grace, Angas William Kelly and Lucy Ward.
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