| Jessie South Australia | |
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Drawing of the Hundred of Jessie, circa 1872, showing the proposed location and layout of the Town of Jessie | |
  Jessie | |
| Coordinates | 36°58′18″S140°57′56″E / 36.971639°S 140.965434°E Coordinates: 36°58′18″S140°57′56″E / 36.971639°S 140.965434°E [1] |
| Established | by 1870 [2] |
| Abolished | 24 January 1929 [3] |
| Area | 100 hectares (250 acres) [4] |
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Naracoorte |
| County | Robe [1] |
Jessie was a town in the Australian state of South Australia whose site is located about 311 kilometres (193 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the former municipal seat of Naracoorte at the border with the state of Victoria. [1]
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.
Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "The City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide. The locality is split into two key geographical distinctions: the city "square mile", bordered by North, East, South and West Terraces; and the section of the parklands south of the River Torrens which separates the built up part of the city from the surrounding suburbs and North Adelaide.
Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66).
It was in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Jessie on land with an estimated area of 100 hectares (250 acres). Upon the proclamation of the District Councils Act 1887 on 9 December 1887, it was located within the jurisdiction of the District Council of Narracoorte. [5] [4]
The District Councils Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of South Australia. It received assent on 9 December 1887, and its provisions came into effect when proclaimed by Governor William C. F. Robinson on 5 January 1888.
The source of the town’s name is not reported in official sources. [1] An article in The Narracoorte Herald of 22 February 1929 does offer two possible opinions to the sources of the town’s name. The first was that "many South-Eastern people thought it was named after a sister of the late Mr. J. P. D. Laurie" who may have had "some influence with the Crown Lands Department" in respect to its name. The second was that it was named after "some other lady" on the basis of the views of "some other historians of nomenclature." This lady could be Lady Jessie Blyth for whom the Hundred of Jessie was named. Lady Blyth was the wife of Sir Arthur Blyth, Commissioner of Crown Land and a former Premier of South Australia when the Hundred was proclaimed on 24 October 1867. [6] [7] [4]
James Park Dawson Laurie, generally known as "Park Laurie", was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of South Australia.
Sir Arthur Blyth was Premier of South Australia three times; 1864–65, 1871–72 and 1873–75.
The Premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia. The Government of South Australia follows the Westminster system, with a Parliament of South Australia acting as the legislature. The Premier is appointed by the Governor of South Australia, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the House of Assembly.
Jessie is reported as being proclaimed on 28 April 1876 by one source while official sources such as the South Australian Government Gazette contain no mention of any proclamation. [7] However, the government gazette does show that land within the town was available for purchase by November 1870 at the latest. [2] A drawing of the Hundred of Jessie prepared in November 1872 by the surveyor-general’s office shows that the town had been located and that a layout of its allotments and streets had been prepared. [8] The town is reported as being surveyed during May 1890. [1] In September 1891, during the second reading of The Park Lands Resumption Bill in the South Australian House of Assembly, it was stated that the town allotments in the Town of Jessie all remained unsold and that there were "no occupants on town lots" while the "suburban lands" had been "nearly all sold." [9]
The South Australian Government Gazette is the government gazette of the South Australian Government. First printed on 20 June 1839, the South Australian Government chose to have its own publication rather than using the local newspaper, South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register because the publishers were perceived as politically biased. The purpose was to publish government orders and acts with authority of the colonial secretary. Initially it was called South Australian Gazette.
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.
On 24 January 1929, the town was declared by a proclamation under the Crown Lands Act 1915 to "ceased to exist" along with the closure of all roads within its boundaries. [3]
On 12 April 2001, the site of the ceased town was divided along the alignment of the Wimmera Highway with its north and south sides being allocated respectively to the newly created localities of Hynam and Laurie Park. [1] [10]
Wimmera Highway is a 345 kilometre highway that connects the towns of Marong, Victoria and Naracoorte, South Australia, through the major junctions of Sunraysia Highway, Henty Highway and Western Highway.
Hynam is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region on the border with the state of Victoria about 302 kilometres south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 11 kilometres east of the municipal seat of Naracoorte.
Laurie Park is a locality located within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
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