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The District Council of Laura was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 1 May 1932 with the amalgamation of the Corporate Town of Laura and the District Council of Booyoolie. [1] It reunited the whole cadastral Hundred of Booyoolie within the same district council, as had previously been the case when the Booyoolie council was first proclaimed in 1876. [2] [1] The Laura merger had occurred after a much broader 1931 merger proposal, which would have seen the Corporate Town of Laura, District Council of Gladstone, Corporate Town of Gladstone and District Council of Caltowie merge into a drastically enlarged District Council of Booyoolie, was abandoned after meeting strong opposition from both the Laura and Gladstone communities. [3]

The council chambers were initially located in the Laura Town Hall, which had formerly been the Laura Institute. [3] It was divided into six wards, each electing one councillor: East Laura, North Laura and West Laura Wards in Laura itself, and South (later Pine Creek), Stone Hut and Whyte Cliff Wards in the rural areas. [4] [3] The council area had a total population of 1,062 persons in 1936. [2] The earlier town hall was replaced by a new Civic Centre in 1968. Amongst the council's later projects was a 1980s-era collaboration with the South Australian Housing Trust to build a number of pensioner cottages in the town. [3] The council ceased to exist on 1 May 1988 when it merged with the District Council of Georgetown and the District Council of Gladstone to form the short-lived District Council of Rocky River. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. p. 41. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 Hosking, P. (1936). The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. p. 644.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Laura". Northern Areas Council. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "District Council Elections". Laura Standard and Crystal Brook Courier . XLI (2170). South Australia. 17 June 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Thursday, 27 August, 1987" (PDF). The Government Gazette of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, ISBN   978-0-949268-82-2

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