District Council of Laura

The District Council of Laura was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 1 May 1932 with the amalgamation of the Corporate Town of Laura and the District Council of Booyoolie.^[1] It reunited the whole cadastral Hundred of Booyoolie within the same district council, as had previously been the case when the Booyoolie council was first proclaimed in 1876.^[2]^[1] The Laura merger had occurred after a much broader 1931 merger proposal, which would have seen the Corporate Town of Laura, District Council of Gladstone, Corporate Town of Gladstone and District Council of Caltowie merge into a drastically enlarged District Council of Booyoolie, was abandoned after meeting strong opposition from both the Laura and Gladstone communities.^[3]

The council chambers were initially located in the Laura Town Hall, which had formerly been the Laura Institute.^[3] It was divided into six wards, each electing one councillor: East Laura, North Laura and West Laura Wards in Laura itself, and South (later Pine Creek), Stone Hut and Whyte Cliff Wards in the rural areas.^[4]^[3] The council area had a total population of 1,062 persons in 1936.^[2] The earlier town hall was replaced by a new Civic Centre in 1968. Amongst the council's later projects was a 1980s-era collaboration with the South Australian Housing Trust to build a number of pensioner cottages in the town.^[3] The council ceased to exist on 1 May 1988 when it merged with the District Council of Georgetown and the District Council of Gladstone to form the short-lived District Council of Rocky River.^[5]

Chairmen

John Leo Kennedy (1932) ^[6]
John Holbeach Acott (1922-1933) ^[6]
George Edwin Cleggett (1933-1936) ^[6]
John Leo Kennedy (1936-1939) ^[6]
George William Smith (1939-1943) ^[6]
Victor Walter Blesing (1944-1948) ^[6]
Charles Amey (1948-1953) ^[6]
Louis Ernest Karger (1953-1954) ^[6]
Charles Amey (1954-1956) ^[6]
Charles Leonard Smith (1956-1957) ^[6]
William Mark Coe Weston (1957-1960) ^[6]
Norman Theodore Pech (1960-1966) ^[6]
George William Paxton Smith (1966-1967) ^[6]
Brian Robert Middlemiss (1967-1973) ^[6]
Vernon William Charles Taylor (1973-1977) ^[6]
Max Erwin Zanker (1977-1982) ^[6]
Peter Edwin Hill (1982-1983) ^[6]
Allan Glen Woolford (1983-?) ^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. p. 41. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b Hosking, P. (1936). The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. p. 644.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Laura". Northern Areas Council. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ "District Council Elections". Laura Standard and Crystal Brook Courier. Vol. XLI, no. 2170. South Australia. 17 June 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Thursday, 27 August, 1987" (PDF). The Government Gazette of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2

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[marsden-1] Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. p. 41. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

[civrecord-2] Hosking, P. (1936). The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. p. 644.

[nac-3] "Laura". Northern Areas Council. Retrieved 18 March 2016.

[4] "District Council Elections". Laura Standard and Crystal Brook Courier. Vol. XLI, no. 2170. South Australia. 17 June 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[5] "Thursday, 27 August, 1987" (PDF). The Government Gazette of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 November 2016.

[b1986-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2

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