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Etymology of Wark's

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Subject: Etymology of Wark's
From: "David McDonald (personal)" <>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 06:11:43 +0000
Ah, a good suggestion, John, better than the road being named after 
Harry Wark, the ganger of the crew that built it:
https://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/search/Manuscript_Collections/cotter_water_supply_series
 

Cheers - David

On 17/12/2017 4:06 PM, John Leonard wrote:
> I was on Wark's Road today and reflecting that it's good that Wonga Pigeons 
> have become almost common in that area in the last few years. I was listening 
> to one calling (which of course sounds like wark, wark, wark) and I had a 
> thought perhaps Wark's Road was named after this sound, rather than someone 
> called Wark.
>
> 😀
>
> John Leonard
>
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