Victor George Carrington | |
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Government Resident of Central Australia | |
In office 11 December 1929 –12 June 1931 | |
Preceded by | John C. Cawood |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Australian |
Victor George Carrington was an Australian administrator. He was the second and last Government Resident of Central Australia,the short lived Territory of Australia which re-merged with the Territory of North Australia in 1931 to form the Northern Territory.
Following the reunification Carrington was designated as Deputy Administrator,based in Alice Springs,until he was again re-designated to being a District Officer in 1937. [1]
In 1934 Carrington was instrumental in prosecuting Gordon Keith Freeman,the superintendent at The Bungalow,for rape.