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The District Council of Kingscote was a
local government area
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located on the western part of
Kangaroo Island in the
Australian state
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of
South Australia and which existed from 1888 to 1996.
Origins
It was one of the local government areas that came into existence upon the proclamation of the ''
District Councils Act 1887'' on 5 January 1888, and initially comprised the entirety of Kangaroo Island.
The decision of the
Government of South Australia
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to proclaim a single district council for the entire island, rather than the preferred option of two district councils, consisting of one for the cadastral units of the Hundreds of
Dudley and
Haines Haines may refer to:
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* Haines Glacier, Antarctica
* Haines Mountains, mountain range in Anta ...
in the east and one for the Hundreds of
Cassini and
Menzies in the west, was unpopular, particularly with the residents of the Hundred of Dudley, who were concerned that they would be
disfranchised due to the relatively long travel distance to the district’s likely seat in
Kingscote.
A petition signed by 61 ratepayers in the Hundreds of Dudley and Haines requesting a separate district council in the east end of the island was presented to
Thomas Playford, the
Treasurer of South Australia, on 7 September 1887 who advised in reply:
the Hundred of Haines was in his opinion more identified with Kingscote than with Hog Bay
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** Sometimes referring to other animals in the family Suidae, including:
*** Warthog
*** Red river hog
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* groundhog
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, and that he could not recommend the request being granted. After the Bill became law if inconvenience resulted the ratepayers could petition him. The Government would give due consideration to any such request.
A subsequent petition signed by 51 ratepayers from the Hundred of Dudley which requested the severing of the Hundred of Dudley and the eastern part of the Hundred of Haines from the district council was received by the Government and was published in its gazette on 29 March 1888. On 7 June 1888, the petitioners’ request was granted by a proclamation under the ''District Councils Act 1887'' with the creation of a new local government area, the
District Council of Dudley
The District Council of Dudley was a Local government areas of South Australia, local government area on Kangaroo Island in South Australia from 1888 to 1996. It was proclaimed on 7 June 1888 under the ''District Councils Act 1887'' after being ...
.
History
The District Council of Kingscote’s seat was located in the town of Kingscote where two council chambers were constructed during its lifetime with the first in 1910 and the second in 1955.
[
In 1936, the district council was reported as covering an area of with of “main roads” and of “district roads”, and a population of 851 people all accommodated in 1083 dwellings. The industries included the production of eucalyptus oil from the leaves of the Kangaroo Island narrow-leaf mallee and the harvesting of gum from naturally-cultivated yacca plants known as “yacca-gumming.”]meat
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, while tourism was changing from a traditional focus on recreational fishing to one where people visited the island to see its landscape, flora and fauna.[
In 1996, it was amalgamated with the District Council of Dudley to create the Kangaroo Island Council.
]
Chairmen and mayors
The following persons were elected as chairman of the district council up until 1974 when the title was changed to mayor for the following terms:
*William Jones (1888-1890)[
*Mervyn Smith (1934–36, 1937–39 and 1941–46)][
*Frank Kasehagen MM (1936–37)][
*Robert Wheaton ]OBE
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(1921–23, 1926–34, 1939–41 and 1946–47)[
*Dudley Herbert Shepherd (1947–48)][
*Edward Claredon Seager DCM (1948–49)][
*Stanley Horace Sheridan (1949–50)][
*Henry Driffield Suter (1950–52)][
*Arthur Stanley Glen Barrett (1952–60 and 1961–64)][
*John Elsegood (1960–61)][
*Donald Fred Pillar (1965–67)][
*Eric Lancelot Wheaton (1967–69)][
*Dudley Gould Kelly (1969-1974)][
*Eric John Beinke, the first mayor (1974-1981)][
*Judith Maureen Morris (1981-1983)][
*Neville Allan Macklin-Cordes (1983-)][
]
See also
*Kingscote (disambiguation) Kingscote may refer to:
Places
* Kingscote, South Australia, a town
*Kingscote Airport, airport on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
* Kingscote, Gloucestershire, England
* Kingscote railway station, Sussex, England
Other uses
* Kingscote (su ...
References
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