The District Council of Hutt and Hill Rivers was a

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. It was established on 30 July 1885 and included the entirety of the Hundred of Milne as well as the south half of the

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. It gained the Hundred of Hart in January 1888 following the passage of the ''

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''. The municipality had no township within its boundaries, so a council chambers was built at

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; the building survives today and is used for tourist accommodation. In 1909, a section was severed and added to the

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. It was abolished in 1935 following a Local Government Commission report that advocated cutting the number of municipalities in South Australia from 196 to 142, with Hutt and Hill Rivers being divided between the adjacent

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(Hundred of Andrews south portion),

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(Hundred of Milne) and the remainder (Hundred of Hart) to the

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Chairmen

* James Maitland (1897–1899) * S. K. Walker (1901) * John Noble (1904–1908) * Alexander Lyell McEwin (1910, 1918) * F. F. Chomley (1935)

References

{{Former local government areas in South Australia Hutt and Hill Rivers

Chairmen

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