The County of Ward is a
county
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(a
cadastral division) in the south-eastern corner of
Queensland
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,
Australia
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.
The main urban area within the county is the city of the
Gold Coast, and it also extends to include the southern parts of the
West Moreton region centred on
Beaudesert and
Boonah.
History
Ward was first created by an Order in Council by the
Governor of New South Wales
The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia, Governor-General of Australia at the national level, the governor ...
on 30 December 1848. It was then described in the following terms:
The Stanley–Ward boundary was somewhat imprecise — the 28th parallel met the sea near
Southport
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, but gazettals and newspaper reports in the
Moreton Bay Courier of land sales in the 1850s noted land between the Logan and
Albert rivers as being within Ward, and numerous reports from 1863 onwards identified Boyd, Moffatt and Logan parishes to be part of Ward.
Upon the
separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859, the southern boundary of Ward became part of the southern boundary of the new colony. On 7 March 1901, the
Governor of Queensland
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proclaimed new boundaries under the ''Land Act 1897'',
which were described as follows:
Parishes
Like all counties in Queensland, Ward is divided into parishes. The parishes current
LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
See also
*
Cadastral divisions of Queensland
References
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Ward
South East Queensland