District Council of Rocky River

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District Council of Rocky River
South Australia
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District Council of Rocky River
Coordinates 33°16′0″S138°21′0″E / 33.26667°S 138.35000°E / -33.26667; 138.35000 Coordinates: 33°16′0″S138°21′0″E / 33.26667°S 138.35000°E / -33.26667; 138.35000
Established 1988
Abolished 1997
Council seat Gladstone
LGAs around District Council of Rocky River:
Port Germein
Mount Remarkable 		Port Germein
Mount Remarkable 		Jamestown
Crystal Brook-Redhill District Council of Rocky River Jamestown
Spalding
Blyth-Snowtown Blyth-Snowtown Clare

The District Council of Rocky River was a local government area in South Australia from 1988 to 1997, seated at Gladstone.

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).

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.

Gladstone, South Australia Town in South Australia

Gladstone is a small rural town in the Mid North of South Australia in the approach to the lower Flinders Ranges. At the 2006 census, Gladstone had a population of 629.

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History

The council came into existence on 1 May 1988 with the amalgamation of the District Council of Georgetown, District Council of Gladstone and District Council of Laura. It had nine members divided amongst three wards (Georgetown, Gladstone and Laura), each returning three councillors. [1] It was relatively short-lived, as on 3 May 1997 it merged with the District Council of Jamestown and the District Council of Spalding to create the Northern Areas Council. [2] [3] Its principal office was located in Gladstone. [4]

The District Council of Georgetown was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Georgetown.

The District Council of Gladstone was a local government area in South Australia. It was proclaimed on 10 August 1876 as the District Council of Yangya, named for the cadastral Hundred of Yangya, but was renamed Gladstone after its main town on 14 August 1879. Gladstone had been built as a private township very close to the hundred boundary, and the adjacent government township of Booyoolie, built not long after, was in the adjacent Hundred of Booyoolie, and formed as the separate District Council of Booyoolie, dividing the twin towns into two separate municipalities based on their respective hundreds. It gained the Booyoolie township from that council in 1879, and acquired the remainder of what had been the southern portion of the Booyoolie council on 12 August 1880. It then gained the remainder of the Hundred of Yangya under the District Councils Act 1887.

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. 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. 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.

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References

  1. ↑ "Thursday, 27 August, 1987" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Gladstone". Northern Areas Council. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Laura". Northern Areas Council. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "District Council of Rocky River, Periodical Election" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia: 775. 25 February 1993. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
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