The District Council of Munno Para East was a

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from 1853 to 1958, seated at Uleybury.

History

The District Council of Munno Para East was Proclaimed by Governor Sir Henry Young on 10 November 1853 to govern the eastern half of the cadastral

Hundred of Munno Para The Hundred of Munno Para is a cadastral unit of hundred covering the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide north of the Little Para River and the flanking semi-rural areas in South Australia. It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelai ...

following a Memorial in September 1853 from 87 owners and occupiers of land in the eastern portion of Munno Para Hundred, praying that that portion of the Hundred lying east of the Great North road, and containing about 50 square miles, be constituted a District; and that James Umpherston, James Adamson,

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, William Kelly, and Phillip Butler be the first District Council. The first meeting was held on the 17th November 1853, There were present Messrs. Umpherstone, Garlick, Kelly, and Butler. Mr. Butler was chosen Chairman. The fortnightly meetings were fixed for the first and third evenings in each month, to be held at the One Tree Hill Inn from which the Township of

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took its name. The combined area of approx. 50 square miles of the Hundred of Munno Para east of the Great North Road (Main North Road) that was bounded on the south by the

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(which derives its name from the

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(Aboriginal language) ''pari'' meaning "stream of flowing water") and on the north by the Gawler River/

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and was also known as the northern Para Plains. The

District Council of Munno Para West The District Council of Munno Mara West was a local government area of South Australia on the central Adelaide Plains from 1854 to 1933. History The council was established on 27 April 1854, bringing local government to the western half of the H ...

was established the following year in 1854 to bring local government to the western half of the Hundred.

Council expansion

On 22 June 1933, the

was abolished, with a severed part added creating an expanded District Council of Munno Para East. The bulk of Munno Para West was merged with Yatala North to create the

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. A northern severed section from Munno Para West was added to the

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. The first meeting of the expanded District Council of Munno Para East was held at Uley on Monday 3 July 1933. Two Councillors from the abolished

joined the existing Councillors. New Elections will be held in August 1933. On the 6th November 1958 the expanded District Council would become known as simply

District Council of Munno Para The City of Munno Para, formerly the District Council of Munno Para, was a local government area of South Australia from 6th November 1958 to 1997, seated at the township of Smithfield. In 1997 the City of Munno Para merged with the City of Eli ...

when 'East' was dropped from the name.

Council elections

The first annual elections of the expanded Munno Para East District Council was held on Saturday 12 August 1933 with the following Councillors elected:— Gawler Ward - Mr. John James Teller Farrow, Smithfield Ward - Mr. Lancelot Leslie George Worden, North Ward - Mr. Albert Henry Riggs, East ward - Mr. Henry Hamilton Blackham, South ward - Mr. Lachlan Keith McGilp. The Council Chairman was elected from the Councillors. Albert Henry Riggs (1873-1948) from Bentley Farm near Gawler was the first Chairman. He served for 22 years and was Chairman for a total of 6 years. His son Eldred Henry Verco Riggs would also become a long term Councillor and Chairman of the Council.

Council centenary, boundary and name change

On Tuesday 17 March 1953 a dinner was held at the Globe Hotel to officially celebrate the proclamation 100 years ago of Munno Para East District Council In November 1954, a Ward Transfer Agreement by the District Councils of Munno Para East District and Salisbury District Council was reached, with Munno Para East Council agreeable to take over Virginia Ward and portion of Penfield, North Salisbury and St. Kilda Wards from the Salisbury District Council. In exchange, Salisbury would take the section of Munno Para East which is included in the new satellite town plans which would later become

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. In 1958 the Council dropped the "East' from its name to become the District Council of Munno Para which later became the

City of Munno Para The City of Munno Para, formerly the District Council of Munno Para, was a local government area of South Australia from 6th November 1958 to 1997, seated at the township of Smithfield. In 1997 the City of Munno Para merged with the City of Eliz ...

in 1984.

Notes

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History

Council expansion

Council elections

Council centenary, boundary and name change

See also

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