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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
This has accordingly been done, and a letter from the Under Secretary 
for Lands, dated 20th September, 1906, says ; — “ I am directed to 
inform you that the Secretary for Lands (Hon. James Ashton) has 
approved of the name Mount Banks being added to the mountain in 
question, the names to appear on the official maps thus: — Mount 
Banks or Mount King George.” 
6. Bankstown. — “ A parish in the hundred of Liverpool, in the 
County of Cumberland, N.S.W., bounded on the X. by Cook’s River, 
from the centre of the road, at the E. corner of J. Alford’s 60 acres, 
to the centre of Moore’s Bridge, on the Liverpool Road; and by the 
centre of the Liverpool Road to the centre of Bowler’s Bridge, 
over Prospect Creek; on the W. by Prospect Creek to George’s 
River; and by that river, on the S. by George’s River to Saltpan 
Creek; on the E. by Saltpan Creek to the centre of the road, which 
forms the S.E. boundaries of Harriett Carr’s 30 acres; James Morris’s 
120 acres; and J. Alford’s 60 acres; and by the centre of that road 
to Cook’s River; containing 48 houses, with a population of 252 
souls.”* * 
It is about 7 miles from Liverpool on the Sydney-Liv.erpool Road. It 
is at the junction of the Rookwood and Liverpool Roads, being 3 miles 
from Rookwood Railway Station. Upper Bankstown is 2 miles further 
on the Liverpool Road. Bankstown is on poor soil and is not a 
flourishing township, particularly since the railway passed 3 miles 
away from it. Bankstown is also the name for one of the original 
districts of the county of Cumberland, X.S.W. ; “ bounded on the E. 
side by Botany Bay district; on the X. side by the Liverpool Road; 
and on the W. and S. sides by Prospect Creek and George’s River.”f 
7. Banks’ Island,^ Queensland. 
The name is also given to an island in Torres Straits, between Cape 
York and Xew Guinea. See Plate xiii. Flinders’ chart of Terra Aus- 
tralis. 
8. Banks Peninsula, X.Z. On the east side of the Middle Island, a 
portion of the province of Canterbury, and in the vicinity of Christ- 
church. 
9. Banks’ Land, Arctic Circle. 
10. Revesby Island. “ The largest island seen is four or five miles 
long, and is low and sandy, except at the north-east and south ends ; it 
• “ Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies/’ 1866, by W. H. Wells, p. 43. 
t Ih. 
* Mr. Edward Stack obligingly informed me of the following map in the Lands Department, 
which Mr. A. J. Hare has kindly permitted me to examine. By John Septimus Roe, R.X., litho- 
graphed by R. Clint, 1822. On this map of Port Jackson the island now known as Cockatoo is 
shown as “ Banks Island,” and the island knov'Ti as Goat Island is shown as Cockatoo. What 
was the authority for these changes, I do not know. In the same map, WooUoomooloo is known 
as Palmer’s Cove, and Rushcutter’s Bay as Blackburn Cove. 
