District Council of Port Gawler
The District Council of Port Gawler was a local government area in South Australia from 1856 to 1935. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1856 under the District Councils Act 1887 after being “severed” from the District Council of Mudla Wirra.[1][2]
Its jurisdiction consisted of land in the cadastral units of the hundreds of Port Gawler and Grace with its boundaries being described as follows: [1]
Bounded on the south by the River Gawler, from the sea-coast to the intersection of the road at the south-east angle of Section 85; on the east, by the eastern boundaries of Sections 85, 105, 20, 19, and 21, and the same line produced northerly till (sic) it intersects the River Light; In the north, by the River Light, from the last named point to the sea coast; and on the west, by the eastern shore of St. Vincent's Gulf, from the last named point to the point of commencement…
The district council’s seat was located in the township of Two Wells.[2]
On 1 May 1935, it was amalgamated with the district councils of Dublin and Grace to create the District Council of Light. The new district council was subsequently renamed as the District Council of Mallala in 1937 and again as the Adelaide Plains Council in 2016. [3][4][5][6]
Chairmen
The following persons were elected to serve as chairman of the district council for the following terms:[7]
- C. Temby (1872-73)
- T. Cowan (1873-75)[8]
- R. Day (1875-77)
- C. Temby (1877-81)
- R. Gilks (1881-84)
- H. Secomb (1884-87)
- S. Condon (1887-88)
- H. Secomb (1888-90)
- T. Hatcher (1890-92)
- W. B. Cowan (1892-98)
- H. W. Wilson (1898-1900)
- W. H. Wasley (1900-01)
- W. B. McCord (1901-02) (3 months only)
- W. B. Cowan (1901-03)
- H. W. Wilson (1903-13)
- H. J. Wasley (1913-15)
- J. Rowe (1915-17)
- T. W. Day (1917-25)
- S. A. Wasley (1925-27)
- E. A. Brooks (1927-29)
- E. H. Green (1929-31)
- H. H. Loller (1931-33)
- A. A. Wilson (1933-35)
References
- 1 2 Finniss, B.T. (11 September 1856). "District of Port Gawler" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 810. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- 1 2 Marsden, S. (2012), A history of South Australian Councils to 1936 (PDF), Local Government Association of South Australia, pp. 4, 43, 46, 53 and 64
- ↑ "ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES". Chronicle. LXXVII, (40,182). South Australia. 7 February 1935. p. 47. Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Hosking, P. (1936), The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936, Universal Publicity Company, pp. 650–651, retrieved 16 November 2015
- ↑ Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, pp. 305–306, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
- ↑ "DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MALLALA, Council Name Change" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 3874. 24 September 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ Two Wells, Mallala and District History Book Committee (1985), Life around the Light : a history of the Mallala District Council area, Community Development Board of the Council District of Mallala, p. 50, ISBN 978-0-9588959-0-3
- ↑ "His Excellency the Governor to Thomas Cowan Esq., Two Wells.". South Australian Chronicle And Weekly Mail. XVII, (853). South Australia. 19 December 1874. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
Coordinates: 34°35′41″S 138°31′02″E / 34.594750°S 138.517280°E