Municipality of Erskineville

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Municipality of Erskineville
New South Wales
Erskineville4A.jpg
Erskineville Town Hall in 2006.
Population6,881 (1947 census) [1]
 • Density1,966/km2 (5,090/sq mi)
Established23 May 1872
Abolished31 December 1948
Area3.5 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Council seat Erskineville Town Hall
Region Inner West
County Cumberland
Parish Petersham
LGAs around Municipality of Erskineville:
Newtown Redfern
Newtown Municipality of Erskineville Alexandria
St Peters Alexandria

The Municipality of Erskineville was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The municipality was proclaimed as the "Municipal District of Macdonald Town" on 23 May 1872 and, with an area of 0.8 square kilometres, was one of the smallest local government areas in Sydney and included the modern suburb of Erskineville, part of Eveleigh and the locality of Macdonaldtown. The council was amalgamated, along with most of its neighbours, with the City of Sydney to the north with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 . From 1968 to 1982 and from 1989 to 2004, the area was part of the South Sydney councils, with the former Town Hall serving as its council chambers.

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Council history and location

The municipality was proclaimed by the Administrator of the Government of New South Wales, Sir Alfred Stephen, on 23 May 1872, with the name of the Municipal District of Macdonald Town (but was variously known as the "Borough of Macdonald Town" or the "Municipality of Macdonaldtown"). [2] On 19 July 1872, the first council, consisting of six aldermen in one electorate, was elected (Charles Brandling Henderson, Henry Knight, James Bryan, Alexander Swanson, William Irwin and James Heighington), with Henry Knight elected as the first mayor at the first meeting on 23 July 1872. [3] [4] Knight (1801–1887) was a prominent landowner, builder and brick-maker who had also served as an alderman for Kingston Ward on the first council of the Municipality of Newtown when it was created in February 1863, serving until 1866. [5]

The council first met in a weatherboard cottage on Erskineville Road, which was replaced by a purpose-built Victorian style design Town Hall designed by architects, Drake and Walcott, who had also designed the Leichhardt Town Hall and were commissioned by the council in March 1889. [6] Built by Thomas Johnson, of Ultimo, the hall was completed in 1890 and the council first met there in February 1890. [7]

On 19 May 1884, a further proclamation divided the municipality into three wards: North Ward, Middle Ward and South Ward. [8] On 27 March 1893 the Parliament of New South Wales passed the "Borough of Erskineville Naming Act, 1893", effecting the name change from Macdonaldtown to the "Borough of Erskineville". [9] From 28 December 1906, following the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the council was again renamed as the "Municipality of Erskineville". With the area being a significant working-class and industrial area, from the late 1910s and 1920s the council was completely controlled by the Australian Labor Party. Non-Labour aldermen were not elected until the 1940s, when Lang Labor eventually took control of the council. [10]

Later history

Mayor Elliott laying the foundation for the new Town Hall, 1 December 1937, as published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Erskineville Town Hall foundation, laid by mayor JW Elliott 1 December 1937.jpg
Mayor Elliott laying the foundation for the new Town Hall, 1 December 1937, as published in the Sydney Morning Herald.

By the 1930s, with the announcement of the widening and realignment of Erskineville Road, the Victorian-era town hall was set to be demolished. As a consequence, Erskineville Council commissioned plans for a new town hall on a site adjacent to the old hall. In 1936, an initial design by Sydney Architect Lindsay Gordon Scott was accepted. This design was an ambitious one, including two stories and a 75-foot-high clock tower. [11] This design however was found to be too expensive and grand for a small municipality in a primarily working-class area of Sydney and was revised to be the current design of a single storey building without the tower in a similar red brick Georgian revival style. On 1 December 1937, the Mayor of the council, Alderman J. W. Elliott, laid the foundation stone and nearly year later, on 26 November 1938, the Secretary for Public Works and Minister for Local Government, Eric Spooner MLA, officially opened Erskineville Town Hall with the Mayor at that time, Alderman Nicholas McGuinness. [12]

By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had realised that its ideas of infrastructure expansion could not be effected 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, Erskineville Municipal Council was merged with the larger neighbouring City of Sydney.

Mayors

YearsMayorsNotes
23 July 1872 – 13 February 1873Henry Knight [3] [13]
13 February 1873 – 13 February 1874Alexander Swanson [14]
13 February 1874 – 13 February 1878Charles Brandling Henderson [15] [16] [17] [18]
13 February 1878 – 7 February 1880Thomas Braid [19] [20]
7 February 1880 – 15 February 1882Joseph Horsfall [21]
15 February 1882 – 14 February 1883James Bryan [22]
14 February 1883 – 15 February 1884Joseph Horsfall [23]
15 February 1884 – 14 February 1885John Frederick Fallick [24]
14 February 1885 – 9 February 1887John Goddard [25] [26]
9 February 1887 – 14 February 1888George Ives [27]
14 February 1888 – 8 February 1889John Baldwin [28]
8 February 1889 – 12 February 1890Andrew Murray [29]
12 February 1890 – 13 February 1891George Ives [30]
13 February 1891 – 10 February 1892Jacob Jacobsen [31]
10 February 1892 – 15 February 1893Thomas Carter [32]
15 February 1893 – 9 February 1894James Peake [33]
9 February 1894 – 13 February 1895Robert Anderson [34]
13 February 1895 – 12 February 1896Jacob Jacobsen [35]
12 February 1896 – 10 February 1897James Peake [36]
10 February 1897 – 10 February 1898Robert Anderson [37]
10 February 1898 – 8 February 1899George Crooks Watson [38]
8 February 1899 – 8 February 1902Gaius Clarke [39] [40] [41]
8 February 1902 – February 1908William Robinson [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]
February 1908 – February 1911William Henry Jackson [47] [48]
February 1911 – 20 March 1911William Robinson [49] [50]
March 1911 – February 1914Leopold Frederick Theodore Schuler [51]
February 1914 – February 1917William Robinson [52] [53]
February 1917 – February 1918J. Vincent (ALP) [54]
February 1918 – February 1919Thomas English (ALP) [55]
February 1919 – February 1920George Ouvrier (ALP) [56]
February 1920 – December 1920Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [57]
December 1920 – December 1921James Higgins (ALP) [58]
December 1921 – December 1922Thomas English (ALP) [59]
December 1922 – December 1923Alfred Stevens White (ALP) [60]
December 1923 – December 1924Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [61] [62]
December 1924 – 21 December 1925George Ouvrier (ALP) [63]
21 December 1925 – December 1926John Patrick McCarthy (ALP) [64]
December 1926 – 19 December 1927Thomas English (ALP) [65] [66]
19 December 1927 – 17 December 1928Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [67] [68]
17 December 1928 – December 1929Thomas English (ALP) [69] [70]
December 1929 – December 1930Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [71]
December 1930 – December 1931Thomas English (ALP) [72]
December 1931 – December 1932Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [73]
December 1932 – December 1933John William Elliott (ALP) [74] [75]
December 1933 – December 1934Thomas English (ALP) [76]
December 1934 – December 1935Albert Patrick Henry (ALP) [77] [78]
December 1935 – December 1936John Patrick McCarthy (ALP) [79] [80]
December 1936 – December 1937John William Elliott (ALP) [81]
December 1937 – December 1938Nicholas McGuinness (ALP) [82]
December 1938 – December 1940J. J. Rose (ALP) [83]
December 1940 – December 1941A. J. Miller (ALP) [84]
December 1941 – December 1942John William Elliott (ALP) [85]
December 1942 – December 1943Harry Wright (ALP) [86]
December 1943 – December 1945John Patrick McCarthy (Ind/Lang) [87] [88]
December 1945 – December 1946M. C. Jordan (Lang) [89]
December 1946 – December 1947Francisco Pietro Fitzjohn (Lang) [90]
December 1947 – 31 December 1948W. J. Anderson (Lang) [91]

Town Clerks

YearsTown ClerkNotes
12 September 1872 – 4 September 1881George Kemmis Tarrant [92]
September 1881 – 6 December 1882Robert Caunter
6 December 1882 – 16 April 1883Beilby Portus Pell Kemp [93]
16 April 1883 – 14 October 1886William James Osborne Harman [94]
14 October 1886 – 20 December 1886Albert Thomas Fitt [95]
20 December 1886 – 1 August 1901William Falkland Bray [96] [97] [98]
6 August 1901 – 18 November 1910Arthur Francis Desborough [99] [100]
21 November 1910 – March 1918John Crosdell Lough [101]
17 March 1918 – 24 May 1935Harold Knight Mackney [102] [103] [104]
22 October 1935 – 1 August 1939William Irvine Donald [105] [106] [107]
August 1939 – July 1946Frank O'Grady [108] [109] [110]
July 1946 – 31 December 1948E. R. Henry

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