The Kanowna Road District was an early form of
local government area on the
Western Australia
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n goldfields.
It was established on 19 June 1896 as the North East Coolgardie Road District, providing basic local government to the rural areas around the mining town of
Kanowna, which had already been incorporated as the
Municipality of Kanowna
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
four months earlier on 28 February.
The board's offices were based in Larkin Street in Kanowna township, although that was located outside the road board boundaries.
A section of the district separated as the
Menzies Road District on 31 May 1912.
The Municipality of Kanowna merged into the road district on 26 January 1917, as a result of which it was renamed the Kanowna Road District on the same day. The road district was also divided into two wards at that time: one for the township and one for the rural areas.
The road board relocated to the former Kanowna council chambers in Golconda Street, Kanowna following the amalgamation.
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It ceased to exist on 15 September 1922, when it was merged into the
Kalgoorlie Road District.
References
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Former local government areas of Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia