The Town of Kalgoorlie 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 ...

in Western Australia, centred on the town of

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...

. It was established as the Municipality of Kalgoorlie on 15 February 1895. It was renamed the Town of Kalgoorlie on 1 July 1961. The municipality was responsible for the construction of the

Kalgoorlie Town Hall Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area include ...

as its new headquarters in 1907-09, which replaced earlier municipal chambers in Brookman Street. It amalgamated with the Shire of Boulder to form the

City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

on 15 April 1989.

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The following people served as mayors of the Kalgoorlie council: * John Wilson (1895-1896) * Harold George Parsons (1896-1897) * Robert Donald McKenzie (1897–1898) * John (Jack) William Fimister (1898–1900) * Miles Staniforth Smith (1900–1901) * Sir Norbert Michael Keenan (1901–1905) * John Hurtle Cummins (1905–1907) * Mark Rosenberg (1907–1909) * Sidney Edwin Hocking (1909–1911) * Charles Augustus Cutbush (1911–1914) * Henry Walter Davidson (1914–1917) * Bernard Patrick Leslie (1917–1920) * Henry Walter Davidson (1920-1921) * William Robert Burton (1921–1922) * Frederick William Allsop (1922–1927) * Bernard Patrick Leslie (1927–1933) * Ernest Elisha Brimage (1933–1937) * Sir Richard Moore (1937–1966) * Lewis Arthur Alman (1966–1969) * Herbert Alexander Hammond (1969–1976) * Maxwell Raymond Finlayson (1976–1989)

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