Corporate Town of Wallaroo

The Corporate Town of Wallaroo was a local government area in South Australia from 1874 to 1997, centred on the town of Wallaroo.[1][2]

The municipality was proclaimed on 25 June 1874, following a petition from local residents that February, although there been had earlier opposition to incorporation.[1][3][4] It consisted of five members at its creation, with two seats from each of a North Ward and South Ward and a separate position for the mayor.[1]

The first town hall had originally been the Wallaroo Institute, but had subsequently been taken over by the council for use as a town hall.[5] This became too small for community purposes, and a new town hall was built in 1902 at a cost of £3,050.[6] The building was completely destroyed by fire on 26 December 1917, involving substantial loss of municipal records.[7][4] It was immediately rebuilt, with the new hall reopening in February 1919.[8]

In 1936, the municipality covered an area of approximately two and three quarter square miles, and had a population of 4,000. It was responsible for 29 miles of streets and roads and 800 acres of parklands, and had undergone an active tree planting program.[4]

It ceased to exist in 1997, when it merged with the District Council of Northern Yorke Peninsula to form the District Council of the Copper Coast.[2]

Mayors of Wallaroo

  • Thomas Davies (1874-1875) [1] [9]
  • Eneder Warmington (1876) [9]
  • Thomas Davies (1877-1879) [9]
  • David Bews (1880-1882) [9]
  • William Phillips (1883-1884) [9]
  • Eneder Warmington (1885) [9]
  • William Philips (1886-1887) [9]
  • James Malcolm (1888) [9]
  • George Chatfield (1889-1890) [9]
  • Thomas Davies (1891) [9]
  • William Richardson (1892-1893) [9]
  • John Evans (1894-1895) [9]
  • James Malcolm (1896-1899) [9]
  • William Richardson (1900-1902) [6][9]
  • Edward Beare (1902-1904) [10][9]
  • John D. Phillips (1904-1906) [9]
  • James Brenton (1907-1911) [9]
  • John Frederick Herbert (1911-1913) [11][12][9]
  • William Price (1913-1914) [9]
  • Thomas E. Ashton (1915-1917) [9]
  • George Chatfield (1918-1921) [9]
  • William F. Errington (1922-1923) [9]
  • William Henry Harbison (1924-1925) [13]
  • Albert A. Chandler (1926-1927) [9]
  • William J. Williams (1928-1929) [9]
  • Douglas F. Warmington (1930-1931) [9]
  • William Henry Harbison (1932-1938) [9]
  • John Stanyer (1939-1940) [13]
  • Robert James Milne (1941-1942) [13]
  • Garnet Leopold James Boase (1943-1944) [13]
  • George Howes Seeley (1945) [13]
  • John Woods (1946-1948) [13]
  • Arthur Gladstone Clarke (1949-1956) [13]
  • John Magor Phillips (1957-1959) [13]
  • Ralph Emerson Allan (1960-1962) [13]
  • Francis Aloysius Jones (1963-1970) [13]
  • Rudolf Emil Otto Diedrich (1971-1974) [13]
  • Francis Aloysius Jones (1975-1976) [13]
  • David Kyffin Thomas (1977-1982) [13]
  • William John (Bill) Bollmeyer (1983-1989)[13] [9]
  • Mick Rucioch (1989-1995) [9]
  • Heather Browne (1995-1997) [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "CORPORATION OF WALLAROO". The Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal. X, (962). South Australia. 27 June 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 "District Council of the Copper Coast - Council Profile". Retrieved 2007-05-30.
  3. ↑ "TOWN OF PORT WALLAROO.". Adelaide Observer. XXXI, (1688). South Australia. 7 February 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 3 Hosking, P. (1936). The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. pp. 442–448.
  5. ↑ "MEETING AT WALLAROO.". The Kadina And Wallaroo Times. XXXVI, (3935). South Australia. 8 June 1901. p. 2. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. 1 2 "WALLAROO NEW TOWN HALL.". The Kadina And Wallaroo Times. XXXVII, (4011). South Australia. 29 March 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "DISASTROUS FIRE AT WALLAROO.". The Kadina And Wallaroo Times. LII, (5475). South Australia. 29 December 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "WALLAROO'S TOWN HALL.". The Register (Adelaide). LXXXIV, (22,551). South Australia. 18 February 1919. p. 4. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 "10.1 ADOPTION OF COUNCIL POLICY – NAMING OF PUBLIC STREETS, ROADS, ETC" (PDF). District Council of the Copper Coast. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.". The Kadina And Wallaroo Times. XXXIX, (4156). South Australia. 30 January 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "MR. J. F. HERBERT.". Daily Herald. 2, (551). South Australia. 9 December 1911. p. 12. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Kadina & Wallaroo Times". The Kadina And Wallaroo Times. XLVIII, (5530). South Australia. 3 December 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 9 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
  14. ↑ "Twelve months as DCBW mayor". Yorke Peninsula Country Times. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2016.


Coordinates: 33°55′0″S 137°37′0″E / 33.91667°S 137.61667°E / -33.91667; 137.61667

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