The Shire of Greenbushes was a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

, based in the town of

Greenbushes Greenbushes is a timber and mining town located in the South West region of Western Australia. The 2021 population was 365. History Greenbushes was founded as a mining town in 1888 following a surveyor's discovery of tin in 1886. Greenbushes wa ...

. It was established as the Greenbushes Road District on 2 February 1900. The territory of the new road district was largely severed from the Upper Capel Roads Board (later the

Shire of Balingup The Shire of Balingup was a local government area in Western Australia. It was based in the town of Balingup. It was established as the Upper Capel Road District on 9 June 1899. It was renamed the Balingup Road District on 12 May 1905. It was d ...

). The roads board built a permanent office in October 1907 on Blackwood Road in Greenbushes, replacing an earlier temporary office on the same road. The building survives today and is locally heritage-listed. It was declared a shire and named the Shire of Greenbushes with effect from 1 July 1961 following the passage of the ''Local Government Act 1960'', which reformed all remaining road districts into shires. The shire ceased to exist on 26 March 1970, when it amalgamated with the

Shire of Bridgetown The Shire of Bridgetown was a local government area in Western Australia. It was established as the Nelson Road District on 10 February 1887, with the board seat in Bridgetown. In 1936, the road board built the now heritage-listed Bridgetown To ...

to form the

Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginn ...

. Politicians

Charles Keyser Charles Christopher Keyser (6 December 1871 – 30 October 1965) was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1905. Born at a timber station in Busselton, Charles Keyser was the son of American timber contractor and ...

and

Charles Layman Charles Henry Layman (4 June 1865 – 23 March 1926) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1904 to 1914, representing the seat of Nelson. Layman was born in Wonnerup (a rural loca ...

were both involved with the Greenbushes Road Board prior to their elections to parliament, with Keyser serving as board secretary and Layman as board chairman.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenbushes, Shire of Former local government areas of Western Australia Shire of Bridgetown–Greenbushes Local government areas of the South West region of Western Australia