Municipality of Alexandria

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Municipality of Alexandria
Sydney,  New South Wales
Alexandria Town Hall, pictured in "Alexandria, 'the Birmingham of Australia'", 1943.jpg
Alexandria Town Hall, pictured in 1943.
Coordinates 33°54′36″S151°11′35″E / 33.910°S 151.193°E / -33.910; 151.193
Population8,060 (1947 census) [1]
 • Density1,919/km2 (4,970/sq mi)
Established27 August 1868
Abolished31 December 1948
Area4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Council seat Alexandria Town Hall
Parish Alexandria
LGAs around Municipality of Alexandria:
Newtown Redfern Waterloo
Macdonaldtown/
Erskineville
Municipality of Alexandria Waterloo
St Peters North Botany/Mascot Waterloo

The Municipality of Alexandria was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Originally part of the municipalities of Redfern from 1859 and Waterloo from 1860, the Borough of Alexandria was proclaimed on 27 August 1868. With an area of 4.2 square kilometres, it included the modern suburbs of Alexandria, Beaconsfield and parts of Eveleigh, St Peters and Erskineville. After a minor boundary change with the Municipality of Erskineville in 1908, the council was amalgamated with the City of Sydney, along with most of its neighbours, with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 , although the former council area was later transferred in 1968–1982 and 1989–2004 to the South Sydney councils.

Contents

Council history and location

Early history of incorporation

The area that would constitute the municipality of Alexandria was first incorporated as the Waterloo Ward of the Municipality of Redfern in August 1859. [2] Under the provisions of the Municipalities Act, 1858, 250 residents of the area including Alexandria signed a petition which was published in the Government Gazette on 17 January 1860, noting that "they have every reason for believing that their interests, as part of the said Municipality of Redfern, will be seriously injured by their incorporation with such Municipality, and are, therefore, desirous to be separated therefrom, and be and become a separate and distinct Municipality". [3] The area was subsequently proclaimed as the Municipality of Waterloo on 16 May 1860 by Governor Sir William Denison. [4]

Secession of Alexandria

In March 1868, a petition of 257 electors (including the first chairman of the Waterloo municipality, Edward Hawkesley) in the Western Ward of Waterloo was published in the Government Gazette arguing for the establishment of a "Borough of Alexandria", noting that "the rates received from the Western Ward have never been wholly expended in that Ward, and that no improvements of a permanent nature are in progress in the said Ward; nor has any sum been voted for that purpose during the past half-year [...] they believe that justice has not been done to them; nor can they hope that their interests will be consulted by the Council as at present constituted." [5] The petition was subsequently accepted by the Government and the Governor Lord Belmore proclaimed the separation of the Borough of Alexandria and the reconstitution of Waterloo on 27 August 1868. [6] [7]

It was bounded by the Eveleigh railway yards and Boundary Street to the north, Botany Road in the east, Canal and Gardeners roads to the south and crossing through the suburbs of St Peters and Erskineville in the west. [8] The first nine-member council was elected on 3 October 1868. [9] [10]

The first chairman of the Waterloo Municipality, Edward John Hawksley, was elected as the first mayor on 7 October 1868 and laid the foundation stone for the first Town Hall, built by local builder Thomas Shirley, on 8 December. [11] However, Hawksley's term proved short-lived when the mayor of Waterloo, William Moon, disputed his election as an alderman for Alexandria in the Supreme Court. The case, based on electoral roll irregularities, was successful and Hawksley was disqualified from public office, leaving the council without a mayor until the election of Alderman Samuel Sparks on 7 January 1869. [12] [13] In a snap election called in February 1869 because of the vacancy, Hawksley was re-elected and was subsequently elected mayor once more. [14]

Expansion and development

Over the next sixty years there were few alterations to municipal boundaries centred on the suburb of Alexandria. Rapid industrial and residential development occurred from the 1880s, with the population of the municipality recorded as 7499 in 1705 dwellings by April 1891. [15] It was this development that was noted in an 1887 profile of the municipality in The Sydney Morning Herald :

"Like its immediate neighbours, Alexandria is a working man's borough, nearly all the dwellings being of a humble description. A large humber of industrial occupations are carried on, some being of a slightly unpleasant nature, so far as the olfactory nerves are concerned. Among others, may be mentioned-boiling-down establishments, tanneries, soap and candle works, and a varnish factory, the whole employing a considerable number of hands." [16]

The Alexandria Town Hall in Garden Street was designed and completed by Ferdinand Reuss Snr in 1881, with major alterations completed by architects D. T. Morrow and Gordon in 1928. [17] [18] [19] [20] In February 1883 a petition was submitted to the Government for the division of the borough into three wards. [21] The division of the borough into East Ward, West Ward and South Ward was subsequently proclaimed on 22 June 1883. [22] In January 1886, owing to the growth in population in the South Ward, a further petition was submitted for the division of the ward into two, adding "Beaconsfield Ward". [23] This was accepted and proclaimed on 16 June 1886. [24]

By 1891, the tramline along Botany road was constructed, the road itself the major thoroughfare in the municipality being laid out in 1821. From 28 December 1906, following the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the council was renamed as the "Municipality of Alexandria". By 1943, when the municipality celebrated 75 years of existence, Alexandria was the largest industrial district in Australia, and known as the "Birmingham of Australia", a term coined by the long-serving alderman and mayor of Alexandria, Michael O'Riordan. [25] [26]

Later history

By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had come to the conclusion that its ideas of infrastructure expansion could not be realised by the present system of the mostly-poor inner-city municipal councils and the Minister for Local Government, Joseph Cahill, passed a bill in 1948 that abolished a significant number of those councils. Under the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, Alexandria Municipal Council was merged, along with most of its neighbours, with the larger neighbouring City of Sydney which was located to the North.

Mayors

John Dacey, Mayor 1888-1890 John Dacey FL3459075 02.jpg
John Dacey, Mayor 1888–1890
MayorsPartyTerm startTerm endNotes
Edward John HawksleyNone7 October 186811 December 1868 [27] [28]
Samuel Sparks7 January 186910 February 1869 [29]
Edward John Hawksley10 February 186910 February 1870 [30]
William Bryant10 February 187017 February 1872 [31] [32] [33]
George Bretnall17 February 187213 February 1874 [34] [35]
George E. Wood13 February 1874February 1875 [36]
Stephen John FoskettFebruary 187512 February 1878 [37] [38] [39]
Charles Brandling Henderson12 February 187812 February 1884 [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]
Charles Jesson12 February 18848 February 1887 [47] [48] [49]
Stephen John Foskett8 February 188715 February 1888 [50]
John Dacey 15 February 188814 February 1890 [51] [52] [53]
John Turner14 February 189011 February 1891 [54]
James Ralph11 February 189110 February 1892 [55]
William Marr10 February 189223 February 1893 [56]
John Harden23 February 189314 February 1895 [57]
James Christie Horne14 February 189513 February 1896 [58]
Ernest Banner13 February 189611 February 1897 [59]
John Harden11 February 18979 February 1898 [60]
Michael O'Riordan 9 February 189815 February 1899 [61]
Alfred Moles15 February 189913 February 1900 [62]
Ernest Banner13 February 1900February 1901 [63] [64] [65]
Michael O'Riordan February 1901February 1902 [66]
David Turnbull Brown13 February 190212 February 1903 [67]
James Ralph12 February 1903February 1904 [68]
Frederick Charles LoveridgeFebruary 190416 February 1905 [69]
Michael O'Riordan 16 February 190515 February 1906 [70]
Samuel Alexander McCauley15 February 1906February 1912 [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76]
Michael O'Riordan February 1912February 1914 [77]
James RalphFebruary 19143 February 1915 [78]
Edward F. Lawson3 February 1915February 1917 [79] [80]
William Henry WassallFebruary 1917February 1918 [81]
John Joseph CollinsFebruary 1918February 1920 [82] [83]
William Henry WassallFebruary 19207 December 1922 [84] [85] [86]
George James Stokes7 December 1922December 1923 [87]
Joseph RogersDecember 1923December 1924 [88]
William Henry Smith  Labor December 1924December 1925 [89]
William Charles Ellis  Progressive December 1925December 1926 [90]
John Joseph CollinsDecember 1926December 1928 [91] [92]
Joseph Bowden  Labor / Labor (NSW) December 1928December 1931 [93] [94] [95]
Richard Power  Labor (NSW) December 1931December 1932 [96]
Charles HumphriesDecember 1932December 1933 [97]
Samuel ChenhallDecember 1933December 1934 [98]
Arthur Reginald Horatio PerryDecember 1934December 1935 [99]
Richard Power  Labor (NSW) / Labor December 1935December 1936 [100]
Samuel Chenhall  Labor December 1936December 1937 [101]
Fred Green December 1937December 1938 [102]
Arthur Reginald Horatio PerryDecember 1938December 1939 [103]
Sydney Henry Gordon AlexanderDecember 1939December 1940 [104]
William Henry SmithDecember 1940December 1942 [105] [106]
Samuel ChenhallDecember 1942December 1943 [107]
Hugh Vincent McConvilleDecember 1943December 1944 [108]
Fred Green December 1944December 1945
Arthur Reginald Horatio PerryDecember 1945December 1946 [109]
John Joseph CollinsDecember 1946December 1947 [110]
Kevin Dwyer December 194731 December 1948 [111] [112]

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