District Council of Burra Burra South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°40′0″S138°56′0″E / 33.66667°S 138.93333°E Coordinates: 33°40′0″S138°56′0″E / 33.66667°S 138.93333°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 2,076 (1936) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 21 March 1935 | ||||||||||||||
Abolished | 3 February 1997 | ||||||||||||||
Council seat | Burra | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Burra Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1935 to 1997.
It was proclaimed on 21 March 1935, with effect from 1 May 1935, as a result of the amalgamation of the District Council of Burra, District Council of Hanson, the District Council of Mount Bryan and a substantial portion of the abolished District Council of Booborowie. [2] It consolidated most of the Burra area - including the Hundreds of Ayers, Baldina, Hanson, King, Kingston, Kooringa, Mongolata and Rees - under one municipality, with the exception of the Corporate Town of Burra in the Burra township itself, which remained separate. [1] The new council continued to use the offices of the former District Council of Burra, which were in the Burra Institute building. [3]
In 1936, the principal towns were described as Aberdeen, Ayers, Booborowie, Davies, Farrell Flat, Kooringa and Mount Bryan. [1] (Today, Aberdeen and Kooringa are now part of Burra, the Hundred of Ayers is divided between Booborowie, North Booborowie and Leighton, and Davies was renamed Hanson). [4] It was divided into eight wards (Baldina, Booborowie, Farrell's Flat, Hanson, Kooringa, Leighton, Mongolata and Mount Bryan). [5] The population of the district in 1936 was 2,076, living in approximately 530 dwellings. The annual revenue of the district was £3,250. [1] In 1943, the council relocated the offices and council chamber to the former Commercial Bank building upon the bank's withdrawal from Burra. [6] It moved again in 1980, occupying the former Farmers' Union and RSL clubrooms. [7]
The Corporate Town of Burra, which had previously remained separate while being surrounded by the district, merged into the District Council in 1969. [8] It continued to have the eight existing wards, but added three members to be elected from a single Burra Town Ward in the former corporate town. [9]
It ceased to exist on 3 February 1997, when it merged with the District Council of Eudunda, the District Council of Hallett and the District Council of Robertstown to form the Regional Council of Goyder. [10]
Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek. The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships collectively known as "The Burra". The Burra mines supplied 89% of South Australia's and 5% of the world's copper for 15 years, and the settlement has been credited with saving the economy of the struggling new colony of South Australia. The Burra Burra Copper Mine was established in 1848 mining the copper deposit discovered in 1845. Miners and townspeople migrated to Burra primarily from Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Germany. The mine first closed in 1877, briefly opened again early in the 20th century and for a last time from 1970 to 1981.
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The North Eastern Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Mid North region of South Australia, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. 8 teams are in the league. The most recent team to join the comp is the Southern Saints (Eudunda/Robertstown) who joined in 2010. Except the Eudunda Rosters were an original team in the NEFL. Only in 2010 'Robertstown "Roos" joined in with the NEFL.
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The District Council of Hanson was a local government area in South Australia from 1878 to 1935.
The District Council of Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1872 to 1935.
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