District Council of Dalkey

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District Council of Dalkey
South Australia
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District Council of Dalkey
Coordinates 34°15′38″S138°30′00″E / 34.26056°S 138.50000°E / -34.26056; 138.50000 Coordinates: 34°15′38″S138°30′00″E / 34.26056°S 138.50000°E / -34.26056; 138.50000
Established1875
Abolished1932
Area280 km2 (108.1 sq mi)
Council seat Owen
LGAs around District Council of Dalkey:
Balaklava Hall Upper Wakefield
Balaklava District Council of Dalkey Rhynie
Alma Plains
Dublin Grace Stockport
Alma Plains

The District Council of Dalkey was a local government area seated at Owen in South Australia from 1875 to 1932.

Local government in the Australian state of South Australia describes the organisations and processes by which towns and districts can manage their own affairs to the extent permitted by section 64A of Constitution Act 1934 (SA).

Owen, South Australia Town in South Australia

Owen is a rural community in the heart of the Adelaide Plains. Owen is 46 metres (150 ft) above sea-level and receives a reliable 416 mm of rain annually and was first settled in about 1865. It is about 80 km north of Adelaide in South Australia and is approximately 40 minutes by road to the nearest main regional centre of Gawler. It is in the Wakefield Regional Council. There was a second railway siding about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of the Government Town of Owen named Woods. The small village by this station is now considered to be part of Owen. At the 2011 census, Owen had a population of 272.

South Australia State of Australia

South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of 28,684.

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History

The District Council of Dalkey was officially proclaimed as incorporating the entire Hundred of Dalkey on 25 March 1875. [1] The five inaugural councillors appointed on the date of the proclamation were John Fisher, Edward George Gibbs, Isaiah Hill, Richard Keane Spotswood, and Gottlieb Trager. [1]

Hundred of Dalkey Cadastral in South Australia

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In 1882 a council chamber was opened for the Dalkey council in Owen. [2]

The Dalkey council ceased to exist in 1932 when it was amalgamated with the District Council of Alma Plains to form the new District Council of Owen, [2] but the new council seat was kept at Owen.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Proclamations—District of Dalkey" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (13 ed.). Government of South Australia. 1875: 551. 25 March 1875. Retrieved 5 July 2017. [...] Messrs. John Fisher, Edward George Gibbs, Isaiah Hill, Richard Keane Spotswood, and Gottlieb Trager shall be the first District Councillors for the District of Dalkey aforesaid.
  2. 1 2 Marsden, Susan (2012). "LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COUNCILS to 1936" (PDF). Proclaimed on 25 March 1875. The first councillors were R Spotswood (Chairman), Traeger, J Fisher, G Gibbs and Mr Hill. J Spotswood was requested to take the clerkship until after elections in July. A Council Chamber was built in 1882. On 12 May 1932 Dalkey was united with DC of Alma Plains to form the new DC of Owen.
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