| District Council of Tantanoola South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Former chambers of the District Council of Tantantoola | |||||||||||||||
  District Council of Tantanoola | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°41′51″S140°27′20″E / 37.697439°S 140.455519°E Coordinates: 37°41′51″S140°27′20″E / 37.697439°S 140.455519°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1888 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Tantanoola | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Tantanoola was a local government area seated at Tantanoola in South Australia from 1888 to circa 1960. [1]
According to South Australian local government historian Sue Marsden "development of South Australia's South East was greatly helped by drainage schemes. Elsewhere in South Australia the Local Board of Main Roads was the precursor to local government, but in the South East it was district drainage boards." [2] The original South-East Drainage District was formed in April 1876. [2] Over the next five years parts were split off to form new drainage districts. [2] The Tantanoola Drainage District was established in 1882 in the vicinity of Tantanoola township.
Six years later in January 1888 the drainage district was declared a council district and expanded to included all of the Hundred of Hindmarsh not already a part of the council area. [3] The District Councils Act 1887 was a statewide legislative push to ensure all settled areas of the state be under local governance. It stated that all existing drainage districts (and the accompanying drainage boards) were to effectively become district councils. [3]
Effective 23 May 1932, Tantanoola annexed a western part of the abolished District Council of Benara and District Council of Mount Gambier West. The Council was subsequently subdivided into Wards named Glencoe East Ward, Glencoe West Ward, Central Ward, and Bridge's Flat Ward. [2] [4]
Tantanoola is a town in regional South Australia. The name is derived from the aboriginal word tentunola, which means boxwood / brushwood hill or camp. Tantanoola was originally named 'Lucieton' by Governor Jervois after his daughter Lucy Caroline, on 10 July 1879. It was changed by Governor Robinson to 'Tantanoola' on 4 October 1888. At the 2006 census, Tantanoola had a population of 255.
Glencoe is a town in South Australia, Australia, located 27 kilometres (17 mi) north-west of Mount Gambier. At June 2016, Glencoe had an estimated population of 661.
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The District Council of Narridy was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Narridy and the surrounding cadastral hundred of the same name. It was proclaimed on 2 March 1876 with responsibility for the Hundred of Narridy, and divided into five wards, each electing one councillor. A council chamber had been completed by the end of December 1879; it was described as "not a large building" but "well suited for the purposes for which it was intended". The Narridy council ceased to exist from 5 January 1888 after being amalgamated with the adjacent District Council of Georgetown by the District Councils Act 1887. Its abolition was followed by angry local calls for a demerger later in 1888, which met with blanket government refusal; at a local meeting discussing this outcome, it was reported that "it was freely expressed that the Premier was working into the hands of Georgetown".
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The Hundred of Hindmarsh is a cadastral unit of hundred in covering much of the locality of Tantanoola, South Australia, including the township. It is one of the 21 hundreds of the County of Grey located within the former Tantanoola Drainage District. Parts of the localities of Burrungule, Glencoe, Koorine and Mount McIntyre are also within the hundred. It was named in 1858 by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell after former governor John Hindmarsh.
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Gower Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Tantanoola about 353 kilometres (219 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north west of the regional city of Mount Gambier.
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The District Council of Mount Muirhead was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 to 1914.
In 1882, the remainder of the South-East District was absorbed into the new drainage districts of Mayurra, Mount Muirhead (the second) and Tantanoola.
DISTRICT OF TANTANOOLA.-Comprising the Drainage District of Tantanoola and that portion of the Hundred of Hindmarsh not included in any other district.
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