The District Council of Port Germein was a

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, centred on the town of

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. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the ''

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'' and encompassed the hundreds of

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, Wongyarra, Booleroo, Telowie, Darling and Appila. It replaced an abortive earlier municipality, the Corporate Town of Port Germein, which had been established on 15 September 1887 when residents, concerned about increased taxation and their interests being lost in a broader shire under the forthcoming reforms, decided to incorporate the town. The local residents reportedly regretted the decision, and when the Act passed late in the year creating the new District Council, state parliament agreed to amalgamate the Corporate Town into the new municipality. A section of the municipality separated on 16 February 1933, when it was merged with the

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and most of the

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as the recreated

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. In 1936, the ''Official Civic Record of South Australia'' described Port Germein council as "one of the largest in South Australia", covering a reported area of 517,760 acres. It had a population estimated at 5,343, with 1,200 ratepayers. In 1954, it reportedly had a population of 3,371. In 1980, it merged with the District Council of Wilmington to form the

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Chairmen

* S. Challinger (1911) * J. Arthur (1915) * Wallace Pengilly Foulis (1935–1937) * Herman Carl Jaeschke (1937–1939) * Thomas Sydney Bishop (1939–1941) * Stanley George Stone (1941–1942) * Nigel Stuart Giles (1942–1944) * Walter Leonard Arthur (1944–1947) * Hiram John Dickson (1947–1950) * Charles Owen Geddes (1950–1955/1956) * John Melrose Hillam (1955/1956–1958) * William James Stanbrook Holman (1958–1960) * Edwin Carl Roocke (1960–1962) * Wilhelm Edward Koch (1962–1964) * Walter Bishop (1964–1966) * Clem Winchester Fuller (1966–1969) * Ian Robert Heaslip (1969–1971) * Desmond Timothy Meaney (1971–1973) * Alfred Vivian Cornelius (1973–1975) * Leith Edward Borgas (1975–1977) * Elliott Edgar Smart (1977–1979) * Noel William Schmidt (1979–1980)

References

{{Former local government areas in South Australia