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Meningie may refer to the following. *Meningie, South Australia, a town and locality *District Council of Meningie, a former local government area in South Australia See also *Meningie East, South Australia *Meningie West, South Australia __NOTOC__ Meningie West is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. Its boundaries we ...

Meningie, South Australia
Meningie is a town on the south-east side of Lake Albert in South Australia. It is on the Princes Highway near The Coorong and was surveyed in 1866. At the , the locality of Meningie had a population of 1118 with a median age of 51 while its town centre had a population of 852. History The word ''Meningie'' is derived from "the Aboriginal word 'meningeng' meaning 'place of mud'". The town was surveyed between March and June 1866 by W. Farquhar without any proclamation. Land was offered for sale on 23 August 1866. The name also was used for an "adjoining private subdivision of sections 104, 106/9 and 111" in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bonney. A school was opened in 1869. A jetty was erected in 1867, with paddle steamers operating between Meningie and other ports on Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina until 1927/1928. The town ceased to operate as a port in December 1936. Boundaries for the locality were created for the "long established name" on 24 August 2000 and whi ...
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District Council Of Meningie
The District Council of Meningie was a local government area in the colony and then the Australian state of South Australia that existed from 1888 to 1997 on land in the state’s south-east. It was proclaimed on 5 January 1888 under the ''District Councils Act 1887'' with its seat being located in the town of Meningie. At establishment, it consisted of land in the hundreds of Baker, Bonney, Burdett, Coolinong, Glyde, Malcolm and Neville, Santo and Seymour and the part of the County of Cardwell located to the west of the hundreds of Glyde, Neville, and Santo. In 1936, it covered an area of and had an estimated population of 2,100 people of which 575 were ratepayer Rates are a type of property tax system in the United Kingdom, and in places with systems deriving from the British one, the proceeds of which are used to fund local government. Some other countries have taxes with a more or less comparable role ...s. On 13 February 1997, it and the distri ...
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Meningie East, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Meningie East is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. Meningie East ’s boundaries were created on 24 August 2000 and given the “local established name”. Its southern boundary is the McIntosh Way, a sealed road connecting the towns of Meningie and Coonalpyn and which is maintained by the Government of South Australia. Land use within the locality is ’primary production’. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Meningie East had 14 people living within its boundaries. Meningie East is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Coorong District Council Coorong District Council is a local government area in South Australia located between the River Murray and the Limestone Coast region. The district co ...
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