Wudinna District Council is a rural

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on central

Eyre Peninsula The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named aft ...

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. Its seat is

Wudinna Wudinna is a town in South Australia. The area was first settled by Europeans in 1861 when Robert George Standley lodged a claim for of land surrounding Weedna Hill ('weedna' later became changed to Wudinna which may be an Aboriginal word meanin ...

, on the

Eyre Highway Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It ...

, west of

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. The district's economy is largely driven by agriculture, mainly

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, with beef and sheep commonly farmed as well.

History

The District Council of Minnipa was established on 28 May 1925. Its boundaries were defined as including the hundreds of

Minnipa Minnipa is a small town serving the local grain growing community located on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. History The Nauo were the indigenous people of the area of Minnipa prior to English colonisation and the area around the town was fi ...

, Yaninee, Pygery,

, Palabie, Wannamana, Mamblin,

Warramboo Warramboo (wɔrˑræmˑbʉː) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat of Wudinna. It is north of Port L ...

, Kappakoola, Pordia and Cocata in the County of Le Hunte, and the hundreds of Condada, Moorkitabie,

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and Travers in the

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, the latter five hundreds being annexed from the

District Council of Streaky Bay The District Council of Streaky Bay is a local government area in South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula. Streaky Bay is the main population centre of about 1,200 people serving an agricultural district based on farming wheat and other ...

. The inaugural councillors appointed were Charles James Rowen, Arthur William Christian, William Mitchell, Thomas Knight, Edwin James Turley, Ellery John Drummond Oswald, and Edward Beck Smith. It was renamed the District Council of Le Hunte in 1932, after Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, who as

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had proclaimed the County of Le Hunte in 1908. It was again renamed on 24 April 2008 as Wudinna District Council.

Localities

The district encompasses a number of towns and localities, including Cocata, Koongawa,

Kyancutta Kyancutta is a small wheatbelt town at the junction of the Eyre and Tod Highways on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Once a busy town with an airport, Kyancutta is now nearly a ghost town, acting only as a centre for the agricultural di ...

, Pygery,

and Yaninee, Karcultaby, Mount Damper and Pinkawillinie. The former locality of Paney, which was a small portion of the present bounded locality of

Gawler Ranges The Gawler Ranges are a range of stoney hills in South Australia to the north of Eyre Peninsula. The Eyre Highway skirts the south of the ranges. The Gawler Ranges National Park is in the ranges north of Kimba, South Australia, Kimba and Wudinna ...

, is also in Wudinna council area. Paney was merged into the Gawler Ranges locality when the latter's boundaries were formalised in April 2013.

Facilities

The area has a number of sporting facilities with

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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

and

bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

all popular pastimes.

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are also located at

and

. The district also has a number of schools and a hospital.

Elected members

Mayors and chairmen of the District Council of Le Hunte/Wudinna

* Ernest Harry Edmonds (1931–1939) * Alfred William Hurtle Barns (1939–1941) * Ernest Harry Edmonds (1941–1944) * David Trevenen Sampson (1944–1946) * Philip Warburton Symonds (1946–1947) * Harold Edward Broad (1947–1950) * Oswald John Murphy (1950–1951) * Victor Melrose Karger (1951–1952) * William Maxwell Heath (1952–1958) * Percy Archibald Tonkin (1958–1959) * George Harnet Phillips (1959–1965) * William Leonard Wilkins (1965–1976) * Eric Markey (1976–1977) * Murray Murvin Gerschwitz (1977–1979) * Newton Lloyd Simpson (1979–1982) * Murray Murvin Gerschwitz (1982–1987) * Tim Scholz (2003–2013) * Eleanor Scholz (2013–present)

References

External links

Council websiteLocal Government Association of South Australia website
{{Coord, 33.047, S, 135.46, E, source:dewiki_region:AU-SA_type:adm2nd, display=title Wudinna, District Council of Eyre Peninsula