Municipality of Vaucluse

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Municipality of Vaucluse
New South Wales
Dunbar House Watsons Bay, Sydney Harbour.jpg
Dunbar House on Watsons Bay, the council seat from 1924 to 1948.
Population9,138 (1947 census) [1]
 • Density2,950/km2 (7,630/sq mi)
Established29 March 1895
Abolished31 December 1948
Area3.1 km2 (1.2 sq mi)
Council seatVaucluse Town Hall (1910–1924)
Dunbar House (1924–1948)
Region Eastern Suburbs
County Cumberland
Parish Alexandria
LGAs around Municipality of Vaucluse:
Sydney Harbour Tasman Sea
Sydney Harbour Municipality of Vaucluse Waverley
Woollahra Woollahra Waverley

The Municipality of Vaucluse was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The municipality was proclaimed as the "Borough of Vaucluse" on 1 May 1895, seceding from the Municipality of Woollahra, and included the modern suburbs of Vaucluse and Watsons Bay. The council was re-amalgamated with Woollahra to the south with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 .

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Council history and location

South Head Cemetery gates designed by engineer Edwin Sautelle South Head General Cemetery stone gates.jpg
South Head Cemetery gates designed by engineer Edwin Sautelle
Parsely Bay suspension bridge designed by former Vaucluse town clerk and mayor Edwin Sautelle Suspension Bridge Parsley Bay.jpg
Parsely Bay suspension bridge designed by former Vaucluse town clerk and mayor Edwin Sautelle

The area was first incorporated on 20 April 1860 as part of the Bellevue Ward of the Municipality of Woollahra. However, after the passing of the Municipalities Act, 1867 which allowed for residents to petition the government to secede as their own council area, the idea of a separate municipal council for the areas of Vaucluse and Watsons Bay at the northern end of the Borough of Woollahra gained ground amongst a large group of local residents. In late 1894 a petition was published in the Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales , calling for the area's separation as the "Borough of Vaucluse" on the basis that, among a general sense of a lack of representation and equitable distribution of rate revenue investment, "that the interests of the residents of the area ... and of the remaining portion of the said Borough of Woollahra are entirely different, and that they form virtually separate communities". [2] [3]

Despite the objections of Woollahra Council, on 29 March 1895 the Borough of Vaucluse was proclaimed by the Governor of New South Wales, with the southern boundary comprising Towns Road and Bay View Hill Street and the eastern boundary being Old South Head Road. [4] [5] On 15 May 1895, the first council, comprising nine aldermen in one electorate, was elected (John White the younger, Albert Jones, Harold Francis Norrie, John Dykes, Hugh Stirling Patterson, Herbert Chudleigh, David McCulloch, Charles John Edward Forssberg, William Jack), with Albert Jones elected as the first mayor at the first meeting on 21 May 1895. [6] [7] [8] [9] The first Council Clerk, Edwin Stanhope Sautelle, was appointed on 1 June 1895. [10] [11] [12] With the passage of the Local Government Act 1906, borough ceased to be category of local government area and the Borough of Vaucluse was renamed the "Municipality of Vaucluse". [13]

The council first met in a temporary premises in Watsons Bay, with the old timber customs house and former Gap Inn building at 17 Military Road, Watsons Bay, serving this purpose until more permanent premises could be built. [14] In early 1909, the council voted to commission new council chambers on the Military Road site to a Free Classical design by architect, Varney Parkes. [15] [16] Completed in early 1910 by builders Pocock & Stevens to a cost of £2,500, the new Town Hall was officially opened on 20 April 1910 by the Secretary for Public Works, Charles Lee. [17] [18] [19]

Later history

In September 1924, Vaucluse Council sold the Town Hall and acquired the nearby Royal Hotel (later renamed Dunbar House) directly opposite Watsons Bay for use as a new Council Chambers. [20] [21] [22] The new Council Chambers were officially opened by the Minister for Local Government, John Fitzpatrick, on 1 November 1924. [23] [24] [25] [26]

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 and smaller 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, Vaucluse Municipal Council was merged back into the larger neighbouring Municipality of Woollahra. The last meeting of Vaucluse Council was held at Dunbar House on 13 December 1948. [13]

Mayors

#MayorPartyTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Albert Jones Independent21 May 189513 February 1896268 days [8] [9]
2John White, junior Independent13 February 189628 April 189675 days [27]
3John Dykes Independent28 April 189611 February 18992 years, 289 days [28] [29] [30]
4Charles John Edward Forssberg Independent11 February 189912 February 19001 year, 1 day [31]
John Dykes Independent12 February 190014 February 19033 years, 2 days [32] [33] [34]
5William Johnston Independent14 February 190315 February 19074 years, 1 day [35] [36] [37] [38]
6William Gilliver Independent15 February 19076 February 19113 years, 356 days [39] [40] [41] [42]
William Johnston Independent6 February 191113 February 19132 years, 7 days [43]
7Adam Forsyth Independent13 February 19134 February 1914356 days [44]
8 Edwin Sautelle  Independent4 February 191410 February 19162 years, 6 days [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
9George Thomas Stowe Independent10 February 1916July 19171 year, 141 days [50]
10Henry David Alexander Christison IndependentJuly 1917February 19191 year, 215 days [51] [52] [53]
11William Williamson IndependentFebruary 19199 September 19201 year, 221 days [54] [55] [56] [57] [58]
Henry David Alexander Christison Independent9 September 1920January 1921145 days [59] [60]
Edwin Sautelle  IndependentJanuary 1921December 1921 [61] [62] [63]
12James McIntyre IndependentDecember 1921December 1925 [64] [65] [66] [67]
13John Herbert Hurst IndependentDecember 19251 December 1926 [68]
14Alfred Charles Samuel Independent1 December 192617 December 19348 years, 16 days [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76]
15Alexander Swinton Carfrae Independent17 December 1934December 19372 years, 349 days [77] [78] [79] [80]
16Henry Alexander John Abbott IndependentDecember 193716 March 1939 [81] [82] [83] [84]
17Ashton Phillip Kurts Independent20 March 1939December 1940 [85] [86]
18 Reg Bartley  IndependentDecember 1940December 1942 [87] [88] [89]
Alfred Charles Samuel IndependentDecember 1942December 1944 [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95]
19Robert Alexander Stewart IndependentDecember 1944December 1945 [96]
20Augustus Herbert Hood IndependentDecember 194531 December 1948 [97] [98] [99]

Town Clerks

Town ClerkTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
Edwin Sautelle 1 June 18957 August 191116 years, 67 days [11] [100] [101] [102]
Christopher Joseph WardSeptember 1911January 19131 year, 122 days [103] [104] [105] [106] [107]
Edmund Horler26 February 191331 August 194027 years, 187 days [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113]
Phillip Victor Saville Soper31 August 194031 December 19488 years, 122 days [114] [115]

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