Municipality of Balmain

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Municipality of Balmain
New South Wales
Population28,398 (1947 census) [1]
 • Density7,470/km2 (19,360/sq mi)
Established21 February 1860
Abolished31 December 1948
Area3.8 km2 (1.5 sq mi)
Council seat Balmain Town Hall
Region Inner West
LGAs around Municipality of Balmain:
Sydney Harbour
Parramatta River Municipality of BalmainJohnstone's Bay
Leichhardt Annandale Rozelle Bay

The Municipality of Balmain was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The municipality was proclaimed in February 1860 and, with an area of 3.8 square kilometres, covered the entire peninsula of Balmain north of Callan Park and Foucart Street, including the present suburbs of Balmain, Balmain East, Birchgrove and Rozelle. The council was amalgamated with the municipalities of Leichhardt and Annandale to the south with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 .

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Council history and location

The Municipality of Balmain was proclaimed on 21 February and Gazetted on 27 February, with the first elections held on 27 March 1860. [2] [3] The election of the first nine councillors was declared on 5 April 1860, with the first meeting occurring on the first day and the election of the first chairman, Rev. Ralph Mansfield. [4] [5] Following the passing of the Municipalities Act, 1867, chairman was retitled "Mayor" and Councillors became Aldermen. With this Act, the council also became known as the Borough of Balmain (From 28 December 1906, with the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the council was again renamed as the "Municipality of Balmain"). On 3 September 1913, the six acres of land adjoining Callan Park Asylum grounds, known as Callan Park were transferred from Leichhardt Council to Balmain, bringing the boundaries further south. [2]

Balmain Town Hall, designed by mayors James McDonald (1881) and Edward Harman Buchanan (1888), was the seat of the council from 1881 to 1948. Balmain Town Hall, 3 June 2016.jpg
Balmain Town Hall, designed by mayors James McDonald (1881) and Edward Harman Buchanan (1888), was the seat of the council from 1881 to 1948.

The council first met on 5 April 1860 in the loft of a warehouse owned by Councillor Thomas Rowntree on Mort Bay (now the site of Gilchrist Place), then to rooms rented on the western side of Adolphus Street and thereafter in St Mary's schoolroom at 7 Adolphus Street. From 1862 to 1876, the council met in the Balmain School of Arts on 142 Darling Street. The current site of the Balmain Town Hall on Darling Street was purchased in 1876 and the existing stone cottage on the site became the council chambers. The council approved the building of new Council meeting chambers, located as a rear extension to the existing cottage, on 16 March 1880, designed by former Balmain mayor James McDonald, which were completed and opened in June 1881. [6] However the need for large premises and a community hall for public meetings was needed and in 1888 a design by the sitting mayor Edward Harman Buchanan was accepted and demolition of the existing cottage commenced. Buchanan's design in the Victorian Free Classical style town hall included the centenary hall, a library, mayor's room, several rooms for council officers, and a council clerk's residence. [7] [8] The council grew a reputation for its strong Labor councils from the 1920s and in 1942–1944 the council was composed entirely of Labor councillors, which led the council to abolish its committees in favour of a cabinet-style system. [9]

By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had come to the conclusion, following the recommendation of the 1945–46 Clancy Royal Commission on Local Government Boundaries, 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, pushed through a bill in 1948 that abolished a significant number of those councils. Balmain was abolished and amalgamated with Annandale into the Municipality of Leichhardt following the enactment of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, which came into effect from 1 January 1949. [2]

Mayors

Rev. Ralph Mansfield (1799-1880), first Chairman of the Balmain Municipality. Rev. Ralph Mansfield (The Sydney Mail 11 September 1880).jpg
Rev. Ralph Mansfield (1799–1880), first Chairman of the Balmain Municipality.
Hon. Jacob Garrard (1846-1931), Mayor 1885-1886, Secretary for Public Works 1885-1886, Minister for Public Instruction 1894-1898. Jacob Garrard c. 1895.jpg
Hon. Jacob Garrard (1846–1931), Mayor 1885–1886, Secretary for Public Works 1885–1886, Minister for Public Instruction 1894–1898.
Frederick Trouton (1826-1896), Mayor 1873-1874 Captain Trouton FL15984842.jpg
Frederick Trouton (1826–1896), Mayor 1873-1874
YearsChairmanNotes
5 April 1860 – February 1861 Ralph Mansfield [4]
February 1861 – February 1862George Elliott
February 1862 – February 1863 Nicol Stenhouse
February 1863 – February 1864 Walter Church
February 1864 – 1864 Thomas Rowntree [10]
1864 – February 1865Owen Evans
February 1865 – February 1866 Ralph Mansfield [11]
February 1866 – 15 February 1867 Walter Church [12]
15 February 1867 – 23 December 1867 John Booth [13]
YearsMayors
23 December 1867 – 6 February 1868 John Booth
6 February 1868 – February 1869Henry Perdriau [14]
February 1869 – February 1870Frederick Robinson
February 1870 – 15 February 1871Josiah Mullens
15 February 1871 – 15 February 1872 Thomas Rowntree [15]
15 February 1872 – 1872George Elliott [16]
1872 – 12 February 1873Henry Perdriau
12 February 1873 – 21 March 1873Charles Mossman [17]
25 March 1873 – 10 February 1874 Frederick Trouton [18]
10 February 1874 – 10 February 1875John Taylor [19]
10 February 1875 – 8 February 1876Henry Perdriau [20]
8 February 1876 – 15 February 1877 Solomon Hyam [21]
15 February 1877 – 15 February 1878John Taylor [22]
15 February 1878 – 11 February 1880James McDonald [23]
11 February 1880 – February 1881Albert Elkington [24]
February 1881 – 12 February 1883 William Alston Hutchinson
12 February 1883 – 11 February 1885James Cameron [25] [26]
11 February 1885 – 8 February 1886 Jacob Garrard [27]
8 February 1886 – 16 February 1887John Greenway Punch [28]
16 February 1887 – 28 February 1888William Moffit Burns [29]
28 February 1888 – 7 January 1890Edward Harman Buchanan [30]
7 January 1890 – 20 February 1890James McDonald (acting) [31]
20 February 1890 – 10 March 1891 George Clubb [32]
10 March 1891 – 11 February 1892James Brodie [33]
11 February 1892 – 2 November 1893James Wheeler [34] [35]
2 November 1893 – 8 March 1895Henry Swan [36]
8 March 1895 – 16 February 1897Alexander Martin Milne [37]
16 February 1897 – 17 February 1899Gilbert Curtis Murdoch [38] [39]
17 February 1899 – 14 February 1901Henry Mills [40]
14 February 1901 – 14 February 1902Alexander Martin Milne [41]
14 February 1902 – February 1903Harry Cox [42]
February 1903 – 18 February 1905Alfred Crump
18 February 1905 – 1 March 1908Matthew Henry Cohen [43]
1 March 1908 – February 1909William John Laws [44]
February 1909 – 1 June 1909Thomas Minty [45]
June 1909 – February 1911Alfred Crump
February 1911 – February 1912Matthew Henry Cohen [46]
February 1912 – February 1914 George Clubb [47]
February 1914 – 3 February 1916Henry Swan [48] [49] [50]
3 February 1916 – February 1918Henry Scott [51]
February 1918 – February 1920Donald McKenzie [52]
February 1920 – February 1922Reginald Thornton
February 1922 – February 1923William Wainwright
February 1923 – February 1924Bertie Wheeler (ALP) [53] [54]
February 1924 – February 1925George Mullins (ALP)
February 1925 – February 1926Thomas Harrington (ALP) [55]
February 1926 – February 1929Reginald Thornton [56]
February 1929 – January 1932Lyle Swan
January 1932 – December 1932Reginald Thornton [57]
December 1932 – 1935Gilbert Storey (ALP) [58] [59]
1935 – 1936Cecil Stapleton
1936 – 1936John Waite
December 1936 – 1938Michael Cashman (ALP) [60]
1938 – 1939Robert Brownlee (Lang Labor)
1939 – 1940Herman Angelini (Lang Labor)
1940 – 1941John Waite
1941 – January 1942Michael Cashman (ALP)
January 1942 – 9 November 1942Michael Hubert McMahon (ALP) [61]
November 1942 – December 1943Robert Brownlee (ALP)
December 1943 – December 1944George Harris
December 1944 – December 1945Edward Erwin (ALP) [62] [63]
December 1945 – December 1946Gilbert Lockhart
December 1946 – 11 December 1947Charles Laggan
11 December 1947 – 31 December 1948Richard O'Connor (ALP) [64] [65]

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