BILLY DUNN PARK

Billy Dunn Park is named after William Fraser Dunn who was a school teacher, a Captain in the 35th Australian Infantry Battalion in WWI and a politician. He taught at Bayly Provisional School on Hayes Gap Rd (Havilah Lane) outside Mudgee.

Minister for Agriculture for New South Wales Mr Bill Dunn, ca. 1925

Agricultural minister William Fraser Dunn reading on a chaise lounge, New South Wales, ca. 1930s

Portrait of William Fraser Dunn, NSW Secretary for Lands, in his office, (1946?)

1954 - Proposal to Honour Memory of Late "Billy" Dunn

A proposal to rename Stott's Paddock was agreed to at last meeting of Gulgong Shire Council. The Chamber of Commerce wrote as follows: —

"Some years ago a public meeting held in regard to the development of Stott's paddock as a park and recreation area, resolved to ask the Council to have the area named 'Dunn Park' as a means of honouring the then State Member, Hon. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A., now deceased. The late Hon. Dunn's record is well known to your Council, and this Chamber respectfully suggests that the Council take action in accordance with the wishes of the public meeting referred to thus five the town a reason to perpetuate his memory OR, the Council might consider some other form of Memorial to honour his name."

Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 2 Dec 1954 Page 10

Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture 8/8/1951