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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates The District Council of Laura was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 1 May 1932 with the amalgamation of the Corporate Town of Laura and the District Council of Booyoolie.[1] It reunited the whole cadastral Hundred of Booyoolie within the same district council, as had previously been the case when the Booyoolie council was first proclaimed in 1876.[2][1] The Laura merger had occurred after a much broader 1931 merger proposal, which would have seen the Corporate Town of Laura, District Council of Gladstone, Corporate Town of Gladstone and District Council of Caltowie merge into a drastically enlarged District Council of Booyoolie, was abandoned after meeting strong opposition from both the Laura and Gladstone communities.[3]

The council chambers were initially located in the Laura Town Hall, which had formerly been the Laura Institute.[3] It was divided into six wards, each electing one councillor: East Laura, North Laura and West Laura Wards in Laura itself, and South (later Pine Creek), Stone Hut and Whyte Cliff Wards in the rural areas.[4][3] The council area had a total population of 1,062 persons in 1936.[2] The earlier town hall was replaced by a new Civic Centre in 1968. Amongst the council's later projects was a 1980s-era collaboration with the South Australian Housing Trust to build a number of pensioner cottages in the town.[3] The council ceased to exist on 1 May 1988 when it merged with the District Council of Georgetown and the District Council of Gladstone to form the short-lived District Council of Rocky River.[5]

Chairmen

  • John Leo Kennedy (1932) [6]
  • John Holbeach Acott (1922-1933) [6]
  • George Edwin Cleggett (1933-1936) [6]
  • John Leo Kennedy (1936-1939) [6]
  • George William Smith (1939-1943) [6]
  • Victor Walter Blesing (1944-1948) [6]
  • Charles Amey (1948-1953) [6]
  • Louis Ernest Karger (1953-1954) [6]
  • Charles Amey (1954-1956) [6]
  • Charles Leonard Smith (1956-1957) [6]
  • William Mark Coe Weston (1957-1960) [6]
  • Norman Theodore Pech (1960-1966) [6]
  • George William Paxton Smith (1966-1967) [6]
  • Brian Robert Middlemiss (1967-1973) [6]
  • Vernon William Charles Taylor (1973-1977) [6]
  • Max Erwin Zanker (1977-1982) [6]
  • Peter Edwin Hill (1982-1983) [6]
  • Allan Glen Woolford (1983-?) [6]

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