District Council of Port Gawler
The District Council of Port Gawler was a local government area in South Australia from 1856 to 1935. It was proclaimed on 11 September 1856 after being severed from the District Council of Mudla Wirra.[1][2]
| District Council of Port Gawler South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  District Council of Port Gawler | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°35′41″S 138°31′02″E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1856 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1935 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Two Wells | ||||||||||||||
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Its jurisdiction consisted of most of the Hundred of Port Gawler, excluding that land in the north west corner north of the River Light, and a south-east portion of the Hundred of Grace which fell south of the River Light. It was thus bounded on the north by River Light, on the south by River Gawler, the west by Gulf St Vincent and on the east by the eastern borders of the cadastral hundreds.
The district council's seat was located in the township of Two Wells.[2]
On 1 May 1935, it was amalgamated with the district councils of Dublin and Grace to create the District Council of Light. The new district council was subsequently renamed as the District Council of Mallala in 1937 and again as the Adelaide Plains Council in 2016.[3][4][5][6]
Chairmen
The following persons were elected to serve as chairman of the district council for the following terms:[7]
- C. Temby (1872–73)
- T. Cowan (1873–75)[8]
- R. Day (1875–77)
- C. Temby (1877–81)
- R. Gilks (1881–84)
- H. Secomb (1884–87)
- S. Condon (1887–88)
- H. Secomb (1888–90)
- T. Hatcher (1890–92)
- W. B. Cowan (1892–98)
- H. W. Wilson (1898–1900)
- W. H. Wasley (1900–01)
- W. B. McCord (1901–02) (3 months only)
- W. B. Cowan (1901–03)
- H. W. Wilson (1903–13)
- H. J. Wasley (1913–15)
- J. Rowe (1915–17)
- T. W. Day (1917–25)
- S. A. Wasley (1925–27)
- E. A. Brooks (1927–29)
- E. H. Green (1929–31)
- H. H. Loller (1931–33)
- A. A. Wilson (1933–35)
References
- Finniss, B.T. (11 September 1856). "District of Port Gawler" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (39 ed.). Government of South Australia. 1856: 810. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- Marsden, S. (2012), A history of South Australian Councils to 1936 (PDF), Local Government Association of South Australia, pp. 4, 43, 46, 53 and 64
- "ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES". The Chronicle. Vol. LXXVII, no. 40, 182. South Australia. 7 February 1935. p. 47. Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- Hosking, P. (1936), The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936, Universal Publicity Company, pp. 650–651, retrieved 16 November 2015
- Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, pp. 305–306, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
- "DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MALLALA, Council Name Change" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 3874. 24 September 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- Two Wells, Mallala and District History Book Committee (1985), Life around the Light : a history of the Mallala District Council area, Community Development Board of the Council District of Mallala, p. 50, ISBN 978-0-9588959-0-3
- "His Excellency the Governor to Thomas Cowan Esq., Two Wells". South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail. Vol. XVII, no. 853. South Australia. 19 December 1874. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.